On January 6th (Wednesday) from 6:30 – 7:30 PM, we at TCLIP will host our second book club session for Diversity in Books.

Our book of the month is Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.

About the book:

A book steeped in empathy and insight, Caste explores, through layered analysis and stories of real people, the structure of an unspoken system of human ranking and reveals how our lives are still restricted by what divided us centuries ago.

“Modern-day caste protocols,” Wilkerson writes, “are often less about overt attacks or conscious hostility. They are like the wind, powerful enough to knock you down but invisible as they go about their work.”

Wilkerson rigorously defines eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, heredity, and dehumanization. She documents the parallels with two other hierarchies in history, those of India and of Nazi Germany, and no reader will be left without a greater understanding of the price we all pay in a society torn by artificial divisions.

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Diversity in Books: Book Club is open to everyone in our community and meets virtually every first Wednesday of the month. We will be discussing books on diverse voices.