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Graeme Strachan
is 65% done
Turns out I was further through this audiobook than I thought. It’s VERY repetitive, if not substantially deep.
There’s something superficial about the way this is told. Despite some of the academic writing (word salad) in some sections, it’s fairly lowbrow in terms of its actual aims.
Weighing a prevalence of examples over actually tying them to the point.
— Jan 12, 2026 08:19AM
There’s something superficial about the way this is told. Despite some of the academic writing (word salad) in some sections, it’s fairly lowbrow in terms of its actual aims.
Weighing a prevalence of examples over actually tying them to the point.
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Graeme Strachan
is 95% done
This really has forgone any attempt to make its case by the end, ascribing just about anything to “Caste” without actually making any more than a tenuous link and ignoring other factors almost entirely.
A pity.
— Jan 14, 2026 08:11AM
A pity.
Graeme Strachan
is 81% done
I’m getting the impression, as the books slides more and more into personal anecdotes, that Wilkerson may indeed be something of a pain in the butt to be around.
— Jan 13, 2026 09:12AM
Graeme Strachan
is 29% done
Thus far a little disappointing.
Instead of a rich academic argument about how racism should be viewed as Caste systems, the book is far more interested in simply retelling stories of racist atrocities committed against (mostly) African Americans in the USA during slavery and Jim Crow segregation eras.
It’s also quite repetitive, and a little too “word salady”.
— Jan 12, 2026 05:16AM
Instead of a rich academic argument about how racism should be viewed as Caste systems, the book is far more interested in simply retelling stories of racist atrocities committed against (mostly) African Americans in the USA during slavery and Jim Crow segregation eras.
It’s also quite repetitive, and a little too “word salady”.
