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[ "This is a civilization searching for it's humanity," Gary Michael Tartakov, an American scholar of caste, said of this country. "It dehumanized others to build its civilization. Now it needs to find its own." ] - Isabel Wilkerson | Caste
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[ "knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful," wrote the sociologist Patricia Hill Collins, "but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate." ] - Isabel Wilkerson | Caste
#Book #IsabelWilkerson #PatriciaHillCollins #Humanity #Politics #OnForgiveness #OnKnowledge #Racism #Casteism #Fascism #Nazism #Authoritarian #NewEra #AI #BigData #Technology
Well, still don't know what to do on the weekend? or just dislike and tiring about the argument with those suggestions which were generated by the so-called "Artificial Intelligence"? Here is another good book to read, by yourself or to read by (a human voice is the best option), and certainly it is a "freedom" of choice, if it is the word we keep hearing.
#Caste #Humanity #Racism #History #Politics #IsabelWilkerson #Book #usa #WhiteSupremacism
📚 I recently finished reading The Warmth Of Other Suns - the story of the Great Migration, the movement of Black Americans out of the South from about 1915 to 1970 - by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Telling the story through the eyes of 3 people who experienced that journey made for a moving + enlightening read. 📚
#books #readinglist #thewarmthofothersuns #isabelwilkerson #blackhistorymonth #africanamericanhistory #mybookshelf #reading #PulitzerPrize
Please read or listen to Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: the Origin of Our Discontents. https://www.isabelwilkerson.com
Also watch the masterful film adaptation, ORIGIN, by Ava DuVernay. https://arraynow.com/project/origin/
Should have read it sooner, but now Warmth of Other Suns is my Bible of sorts. My own cultural, spiritual Odyssey.
Essential, blood, of the bone.
May well be the most honest testament to the stages of life, in complete honesty, ever. Not only the long, slow arc of our great Migration. But of life, youth to sunset, death, in lovingly, beautiful, torturous prose.
#WarmthOfOtherSuns #IsabelWilkerson #greatmigration #africanamericanhistory
Trying to make some sense of the current moment by reading Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents". Finding it informative and mind bending.
Discussing — #Caste, by #IsabelWilkerson (2020)
an awesome book i’ve discussed before, but i’ve seen so many comments in the past 24 hours about UK supreme court, and the definition of women… i think it was this book helped me understand the *why* of all this bigotry
a caste system = a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity.
the book explored US style #racism = a caste system
(because e.g. if whites really thought blacks inferior why would they let them look after white children? and similar questions.)
so, what is the purpose of the system (as reflected in what the system does)
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wilkerson explored 8 pillars of caste: (paraphrased, for more detail see e.g. wikipedia on 8 pillars of caste)…
the idea god wants society stratified;
social status acquired at birth is immutable
endogamy/ anti-miscegenation laws
pure caste > polluting caste
occupational advantages/ disadvantages should reflect caste
tools of dehumanisation/ stigma
terror and cruelty
inherent superiority/ inferiority
the patriarchal kool-aid drinking terf worldview is
obsessed with policing gender because it is necessary to maintain the inferior (economic) status / caste of women
@muiren We watched Origins last night, excellent, just as we’d expected of Ava DuVernay, and are glad to see our local public library has Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents in multiple formats, including large print, sound recording, and book adaptation for young adults. https://www.montereylibrary.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?idx=&q=caste+isabel+wilkerson&limit=&weight_search=1
#IsabelWilkerson #Caste #AvaDuVernay #Origins #AmericanHierarchy #hierarchy #classism #power #UShistory #India #NaziGermany
Just watched #AvaDuVernay’s film Origin on Netflix and that was probably the most emotional film I’ve seen recently. It’s about #IsabelWilkerson’s 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, and I definitely recommend this underrated film.
Fair warning: the film deals with heavy subjects including racism in the United States, the Holocaust in Nazi Germany, and the caste system in India, bookmarked with the murder of Trayvon Martin, and it can be triggering.
#Watching #Origin 2024 Drama by Ava DuVernay 2hrs 20 mins
was really looking forward to seeing this — disappointed at first cos Binge had the streaming rights, but this is now for buy/ or rent from itunes australia
“While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time.”
“Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN is inspired by the remarkable life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson as she pens her seminal book, #Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents.”
the book Caste made a deep impression on me, but i had no idea just how viscerally this bio/doco/drama would bring home what #IsabelWilkerson has to say about Caste. Not surprised it’s a quality film because Ava DuVernay knows her stuff, but this exceeded my expectations, and then some.
it’s beautifully made, and very moving.
(Okay, i’m wrecked from weeping, but that’s just what i do)
“Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."
Heinrich Heine, 1821
5) "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent" by Isabel Wilkerson - an absolute gut-punch of a book. It makes the uncomfortable claim that race functions like caste in the United States. She has a way of taking complex and uncomfortable subjects and describing them in well-drawn metaphors.
#Books #Bookstodon #History #USA #isabelwilkerson
5/10
"The idea of caste as being the foundational principle of so many of the -isms that we experience in our lives — whether it's racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or whatever — the bedrock of all of that is this very fundamental idea that I'm better than you because of this set of random traits and that I will organise society and I will accrue power and status based on that," says DuVernay
I finished #Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by #IsabelWilkerson and watched #Origin by #AvaDuvernay.
I borrowed the hardcover from my spouse so I bought a paperback so that I can paint it with a highlighter and write in the margins.
Good books confirm your suspicions. Great books challenge your world view and force you to reexamine your thinking. Caste is a great book.
Now how does #caste play out in #HamRadio? #whitesupremacy #racism #BlackMastodon
Lengthy interview with film clips with Ava DuVernay on Democracy Now on her new film, Origin, which illuminates Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste. Includes an interview Amy Goodman made with Wilkerson when it was published in 2020.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/2/origin_ava_duvernay
#caste #genocide #Germany #Dalits #India #SouthernSlavery #IsabelWilkerson #AvaDuVernay #Origin
I just saw Ava DuVernay's Origin and it was extremely powerful. Having Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor play the author is a brilliant way to film an unfilmable nonfiction book. The performances were spectacular and the whole thing was brimming with emotion and truth about some terrible realities and difficult problems that need to be rectified.
#film #cinema #cinemastodon #AvaDuVernay #CasteTheOriginsOfOurDisconents #IsabelWilkerson
Ann Hornaday: ‘Origin’: Ava DuVernay’s latest film is ambitious, and one of a kind: Adapting Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ was never going to be easy. DuVernay somehow made it even more human.
"'Origin,' Ava DuVernay’s audacious, ambitious adaptation of the equally audacious and ambitious book 'Caste,' operates on so many levels at once that the effect is often dizzyingly disorienting. But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed. …
#film #filmreview #origin #caste #AvaDuVernay #IsabelWilkerson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/01/17/origin-movie-review-ava-duvernay
Ava DuVernay discusses her new film, Origin, which appears to be her reading of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste. Brilliant approach to a "dense, philosophical" text. May have to wait a while because it only starts in select theaters tomorrow. The trailer is thoughtful. We're still isolating.
Angelina Jolie Hosts ‘Origin’ Soiree As Ava DuVernay Film Picks Up More Heavy Hitter Support In Oscar Voting Final Days
#News #AMPAS #AngelinaJolie #AunjanueEllisTaylor #AvaDuVernay #Cher #CriticsChoiceAwards #DaveChappelle #IsabelWilkerson #Origin #Oscars
https://deadline.com/2024/01/origin-angelina-jolie-party-ava-duvernay-film-oscars-1235790951/
Ann Hornaday: The creative politics of Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’: To capture the creativity it took to write ‘Caste,’ DuVernay pushed her own powers to a new level
"But what was perhaps the most audacious portrayal of innovation is only now making its way to theaters on Jan. 19: “Origin,” Ava DuVernay’s sprawling, densely layered adaptation of former New York Times reporter Isabel Wilkerson’s bestseller “Caste,” not only dramatizes the journey of an author breaking open a new idea, but also takes bold artistic risks of its own in bringing what could be an arcane theoretical construct to shattering emotional life."
"“I don’t have to do what they do,” she says she’s come to realize. “I don’t have to do it their way. If these guys, and White filmmakers from all over the world, can experiment and create new things, why can’t I do that?”"
#avaduvernay #caste #origin #film #isabelwilkerson
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/01/13/ava-duvernay-origin-creative-politics
Regina King Praises “Stunning” ‘Origin” At Tastemaker Screening With Ava DuVernay & Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
#News #AunjanueEllisTaylor #AvaDuVernay #CasteTheOriginsofOurDiscontents #IsabelWilkerson #Neon #NiecyNash #Origin #ReginaKing
https://deadline.com/2024/01/origin-regina-king-praises-duvernay-film-1235696333/
‘Origin’ Becomes The Highest Tested Movie Ever For NEON & Ava DuVernay
#News #AvaDuVernay #Caste #IsabelWilkerson #JonBernthal #Neon #NiecyNash #Origin
https://deadline.com/2023/11/origin-ava-duvernay-neon-test-scores-1235630441/
#rassismus #racism noch ein table zu #isabelwilkerson mit einem weiteren zitat
Im kontext #rassimus #racism möchte ich nocheinmal an #isabelwilkerson erinnern
TIFF 2023 Review: Origin – “Highly recommended.” Read the #review here https://bit.ly/3EG26Pv by @PetDocHill
#IsabelWilkerson #Origin #AvaDuVernay #AunjanueEllisTaylor #JonBernthal #TIFF #TIFF23 @TIFF_NET
Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Ava DuVernay Is the First Black Woman to Compete at the Venice Film Festival https://jezebel.com/ava-duvernay-is-the-first-black-woman-to-compete-at-the-1850808196?utm_source=regular #Jezebel #thevenicefilmfestival #entertainmentculture #victoriapedretti #isabelwilkerson #niecynashbetts #audramcdonald #nickofferman #avaduvernay #verafarmiga #ellistaylor #jonbernthal #woodyallen #duvernay #origin #films #oscar
Ava DuVernay On Making ‘Origin’, Neon Sale, Some Venice History & Global Appeal Of Justice
#BreakingNews #Festivals #Interviews #ARRAY #AunjanueEllis #AvaDuVernay #IsabelWilkerson #Neon #Netflix #NiecyNashBetts #Origin #PaulGarnes #TorontoFilmFestival #Venice #VeniceFilmFestival #WGAStrike
https://deadline.com/2023/09/ava-duvernay-interview-origin-venice-film-festival-1235532075/
I thought being color blind was anti racist. But it’s the opposite.
We must understand how race has influenced and continues to influence our thoughts, feelings and behaviors in America.
We must know our history and fight to create a stronger, increasingly egalitarian, multi ethnic democracy for all.
#isabelwilkerson #Caste in her chapter #TheEvilOfSilence, shares stories of #lynchings. In America. Burning people at the stake. In America.
Crowds gathered to celebrate the torture. In America. Souvenirs people were awarded or bought of said torture. In America.
In America. In America. Yes, in America.
This is who many of us were. Who are we now? Who are you now?
Our history. #CRT
Truth is knowledge—Knowledge is power—Silence is evil—Repression of knowledge is evil. #BookBans
If anyone is interested—the path of information— about Hitler admiring America’s laws that codified marginalization of Native Americans and African Americans was the book Caste.
The vilification of #CRT and the partisan joke of a supreme court & other #MAGA judges, legislators & brainwashed followers (fuck you Fox etc) will further dilute the truth of our hateful history & set the path for growth of our caste system.
#Caste #IsabelWilkerson
Does #clarencethomas worry about #miscegenation?
Folks who think it’s sensible, reasonable, moral to #banbooks, eliminate #DEI, spread anti #CRT (Critical Race Theory) #propaganda, support anti #AffirmativeAction, (struck down by the largely corrupt #SCOTUS) should
read #Caste by #IsabelWilkerson
I recognize none of this is reasonable.
It’s deliberate. It’s fear of a multi racial society. It’s #racism, built in to the fabric of this nation.
#July4th celebration- the hope we grow in to e pluribus unum.
"Newcomers learn to vie for the good favor of the dominant caste and to distance themselves from the bottom-dwellers, as if everyone were in the grip of an invisible playwright. They learn to conform to the dictates of the ruling caste if they are to prosper in their new land, a shortcut being to contrast themselves with the degraded lowest caste, to use them as the historic foil against which to rise in a harsh, every-man-for-himself economy” (p. 52).
“Slavery built the man-made chasm between blacks and whites that forces the middle castes of Asians, Latinos, indigenous peoples, and new immigrants of African descent to navigate within what began as a bipolar hierarchy" (p. 52).
"It made lords of everyone in the dominant caste, as law and customs stated that ‘submission is required of the Slave, not to the will of the Master only, but to the will of all other white persons.’ It was not merely a torn thread in ‘an otherwise perfect cloth,’ wrote the sociologist Steven Steinberg. ‘It would be closer to say that slavery provided the fabric out of which the cloth was made’” (p. 44).
“Slavery in this land was not merely an unfortunate thing that happened to black people. It was an American innovation, an American institution created by and for the benefit of the elites of the dominant caste and enforced by poorer members of the dominant caste who tied their lot to the caste system rather than to their consciences."
"whether they should be expected to speak with authority on this or that subject, whether they will be administered pain relief in a hospital, whether their neighborhood is likely to adjoin a toxic waste site or to have contaminated water flowing from their taps, whether they are more or less likely to survive childbirth in the most advanced nation in the world, whether they may be shot by authorities with impunity” (p. 18).
“What people look like, or, rather, the race they have been assigned or are perceived to belong to, is the visible cue to their caste. It is the historic flash card to the public of how they are to be treated, where they are expected to live, what kinds of positions they are expected to hold, whether they belong in this section of town or that seat in a boardroom," (continued in /3)
I'm revisiting Isabel Wilkerson's very important book Caste these days. Some illuminating insights that, in my view, continue to deserve our critical attention:
“A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations” (p. 11).
I’m not sure that people who subscribe to extreme ideologies really believe “it” could happen to them. The cognitive dissonance would be unbearable.
Of course, people can be selectively blind when it suits them.
This is a fascinating topic - cos as much as it’s horrifying people can be indifferent to the welfare of any marginalised group, I sometimes like to hope “self-interest” might encourage solidarity even in the face of prejudice, bias and other BS
#IsabelWilkerson, provides some clues in her brilliant, brilliant book #Caste
People within a given caste rank themselves relative to other members of the same caste… based on some other form of marginalisation. (e.g. I might be Black/White but at least I’m not poor/ female etc). Some might think they have more to fear or lose than others. Etm
Another question might be why do some people think “only socialist governments” or “only conservative governments” are dangerous?
I don’t think governments are inherently evil, but for the most part - in practice - they always seem to benefit a few at the expense of many, whether red or blue, but people like to pick a team. Personally, I can’t say Stalin was any better than Hitler, but the (dominant) culture encourages us to assume there are only two (extreme) options to choose from.
From what I think I’ve seen, the team people pick is *sometimes* predictable based on how powerless /or free they believe they are personally.
/cont