Jonny’s Reviews > Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents > Status Update

This book feels biased. But it also could be I’m biased against the book. The main argument I say is that it doesn’t argue the entirety of America is in a stringent caste as it claims. Rather it claims and supports itself that the South did. This isn’t to wash the hands of those in other parts of America. More so to show the extremes in the South and how it could expand at that time. Yet it still contradicts.

The gory details make you want to look away but then you have to face the fact it happened. Almost makes you wish it was just macabre fiction.

The comparison to Nazi Germany’s racial laws feels odd. On one hand it shows the depravity of what was allowed in America at this time, but on the other shows that they both wanted different things. I don’t think the nazis shunned it. They had a different goal. Genocide.

I feel very iffy about this book. I don’t think the comparison is strong but I’m not familiar enough with the caste system in India to be certain.