Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
(OverDrive Listen)

Isabel Wilkerson. (2020). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Isabel Wilkerson. 2020. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Books on Tape.

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Books on Tape, 2020.

Isabel Wilkerson. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2020.

OverDrive Product Record

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: 8
        • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780593339800
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780593339817
   • name: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook
   • id: audiobook-mp3
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: 8
        • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780593339800
     2. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780593339817
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • id: audiobook-overdrive

edition

Unabridged

mediaType

Audiobook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Isabel Wilkerson

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Caste

dateAdded

2020-08-19T00:36:00Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com?websiteID=242&titleID=5284095
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: LION: Libraries Online (CT)
     • id: 1354

sortTitle

Caste The Origins of Our Discontents

crossRefId

5284095

subtitle

The Origins of Our Discontents

id

31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055

starRating

4.1

OverDrive MetaData

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • duration: 15:10:40
   • fileName: Untitled-69733
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 437125320
   • identifiers:
     1. • audience: retailer
        • type: 8
        • value: penguinrandomhouse_audio#9780593339800
     2. • audience: library
        • type: ISBN
        • value: 9780593339817
   • name: OverDrive Listen
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: audiobook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 8/4/2020
   • samples:
     1. • source: Part 1
        • formatType: audiobook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=31571777-87a5-48e8-85ce-9f34618db055&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Wilkerson, Isabel
   • bioText: Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named to Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and The New York Times’s list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.
   • name: Isabel Wilkerson
2. • role: Narrator
   • fileAs: Miles, Robin
   • name: Robin Miles

imprint

Random House Audio

publishDate

2020-08-04T00:00:00Z

edition

Unabridged

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Caste

fullDescription

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author.
#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award • Dayton Literary Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist • Kirkus Prize Finalist
“As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power—which groups have it and which do not.”
Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people’s lives and behavior and the nation’s fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people—including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball’s Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others—she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

popularity

26219

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BPQEAAA20/products/31571777-87a5-48e8-85ce-9f34618db055/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
• shareInLibby:
  • href: https://link.overdrive.com/share?q=_6BQADHmp90
  • type: text/HTML

id

31571777-87a5-48e8-85ce-9f34618db055

starRating

4.1

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG100.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG200.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG150.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/1191-1/{31571777-87A5-48E8-85CE-9F34618DB055}IMG400.JPG
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: History
2. • value: Sociology
3. • value: Nonfiction

publishDateText

08/04/2020

mediaType

Audiobook

shortDescription

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author.
#1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, New York Post, The New York Public Library, Fortune, Smithsonian Magazine, Marie Claire, Slate, Library Journal, Kirkus...

sortTitle

Caste The Origins of Our Discontents

crossRefId

5284095

awards

1. • source: The National Book Critics Circle
   • value: National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
2. • source: Notable Books Council
   • value: Notable Books for Adults

subtitle

The Origins of Our Discontents

publisher

Books on Tape

bisacCodes

1. • code: HIS054000
   • description: History / Social History
2. • code: SOC026040
   • description: Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory
3. • code: SOC050000
   • description: Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity