¡°Magnificent . . . a trailblazing work on the birth of inequality . . . Caste offers a forward-facing vision. Bursting with insight and love, this book may well help save us.¡±-O: The Oprah Magazine
¡°Extraordinary . . . one of the most powerful nonfiction books I¡¯d ever encountered . . . an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far. . . .Caste deepens our tragic sense of American history. It reads like watching the slow passing of a long and demented cortege. . . . It¡¯s a book that seeks to shatter a paralysis of will. It¡¯s a book that changes the weather inside a reader.¡±-Dwight Garner, The New York Times
¡°[Caste] should be at the top of every American¡¯s reading list.¡±-Chicago Tribune
¡°Wilkerson¡¯s book is a powerful, illuminating and heartfelt account of how hierarchy reproduces itself, as well as a call to action for the difficult work of undoing it.¡±-The Washington Post
¡°It is bracing to be reminded with such precision that our country was built through genocide and slavery. But Ms. Wilkerson has also provided a renewed way of understanding America¡¯s longest, fiercest trouble in all its complexity. Her book leaves me both grateful and hopeful. I gulped it down.¡±-Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains
¡°Like Martin Luther King, Jr. before her, Isabel Wilkerson has traveled the world to study the caste system and has returned to show us more clearly than ever before how caste is permanently embedded in the foundation and unseen structural beams of this old house called America. Isabel Wilkerson tells this story in prose that is so beautiful, the only reason to pause your reading is to catch your breath. You cannot understand America today without this book.¡±-Lawrence O'Donnell
¡°This enthralling expos? deserves a wide and impassioned readership.¡±- Publishers Weekly (starred review)