Join the PS! Book Club on May 16th at 7:00 pm, for a thoughtful discussion of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, a masterful work by an award winning and renowned author.
In her most recent non-fiction book, Wilkerson presents the reader with a dark history of the scope of human violence. She looks at this history through the lens of caste systems as they exist in countries such as India, as they were manifested by the treatment of Jews and other minorities by the Nazis, and how they continue to exist in the United States. Wilkerson focuses on the mistreatment of African-Americans by government and the law, as well as in everyday life – from the violence of slavery, the terror of lynchings, to the daily discourtesy and often dehumanizing mistreatment still being encountered today.