For the Ages: A History Podcast

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

January 17, 2022 New-York Historical Society
For the Ages: A History Podcast
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Show Notes

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson examines an unspoken hierarchy that transcends race, class, and other lines of division in modern society. By comparing the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, explore how the nation can orient itself around common humanity instead of artificial and destructive separations between those who have power and those who do not.
Recorded on May 7, 2021