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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Dead Are Arising
- The Life of Malcolm X
- 著者: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
- ナレーター: Dion Graham
- 再生時間: 18 時間 6 分
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Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly 30-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction.
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The Vanishing Half
- 著者: Brit Bennett
- ナレーター: Shayna Small
- 再生時間: 11 時間 34 分
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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The Ministry for the Future
- A Novel
- 著者: Kim Stanley Robinson
- ナレーター: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, 、その他
- 再生時間: 20 時間 41 分
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The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
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Hidden Valley Road
- 著者: Robert Kolker
- ナレーター: Sean Pratt
- 再生時間: 13 時間 8 分
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the air force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins - aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony - and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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The Dead Are Arising
- The Life of Malcolm X
- 著者: Les Payne, Tamara Payne
- ナレーター: Dion Graham
- 再生時間: 18 時間 6 分
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Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly 30-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction.
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The Vanishing Half
- 著者: Brit Bennett
- ナレーター: Shayna Small
- 再生時間: 11 時間 34 分
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The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, Southern black community and running away at age 16, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same Southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white and her white husband knows nothing of her past.
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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The Ministry for the Future
- A Novel
- 著者: Kim Stanley Robinson
- ナレーター: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, 、その他
- 再生時間: 20 時間 41 分
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The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us - and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face. It is a novel both immediate and impactful, desperate and hopeful in equal measure, and it is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.
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Hidden Valley Road
- 著者: Robert Kolker
- ナレーター: Sean Pratt
- 再生時間: 13 時間 8 分
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Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the air force brought them to Colorado, where their 12 children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins - aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony - and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse.
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- 著者: Richard Rothstein
- ナレーター: Adam Grupper
- 再生時間: 9 時間 32 分
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 14 時間 54 分
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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- 投稿者: Vera Pereira 日付: 2019/05/01
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Sapiens
- A Brief History of Humankind
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 15 時間 17 分
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Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas.
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History and future of human
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2019/03/29
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Too Much and Never Enough
- How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
- 著者: Mary L. Trump PhD
- ナレーター: Mary L. Trump PhD
- 再生時間: 7 時間 5 分
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In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up.
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Apollo's Arrow
- The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
- 著者: Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD
- ナレーター: Nicholas A. Christakis MD PhD
- 再生時間: 12 時間 10 分
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Apollo's Arrow offers a riveting account of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it swept through American society in 2020 and of how the recovery will unfold in the coming years. Drawing on momentous (yet dimly remembered) historical epidemics, contemporary analyses, and cutting-edge research from a range of scientific disciplines, Nicholas A. Christakis explores what it means to live in a time of plague - an experience that is paradoxically uncommon to the vast majority of humans who are alive yet deeply fundamental to our species.
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The Culture Map
- Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
- 著者: Erin Meyer
- ナレーター: Lisa Larsen
- 再生時間: 7 時間 42 分
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Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
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Great help for multi international team
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2020/08/27
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The New Map
- Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
- 著者: Daniel Yergin
- ナレーター: Robert Petkoff
- 再生時間: 15 時間 48 分
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The world is being shaken by the collision of energy, climate change, and the clashing power of nations in a time of global crisis. The "shale revolution" in oil and gas - made possible by fracking technology, but not without controversy - has transformed the American economy, ending the "era of shortage", but introducing a turbulent new era. Almost overnight, the United States has become the world's number one energy powerhouse - and, during the coronavirus crisis, brokered a tense truce between Russia and Saudi Arabia.
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Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
- 著者: Fareed Zakaria
- ナレーター: Fareed Zakaria
- 再生時間: 7 時間 24 分
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Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold. In the form of 10 straightforward “lessons”, covering topics from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement, Zakaria creates a structure for listeners to begin thinking beyond COVID-19.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
- 著者: Shoshana Zuboff
- ナレーター: Nicol Zanzarella
- 再生時間: 24 時間 16 分
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is neither a hand-wringing narrative of danger and decline nor a digital fairy tale. Rather, it offers a deeply reasoned and evocative examination of the contests over the next chapter of capitalism that will decide the meaning of information civilization in the 21st century. The stark issue at hand is whether we will be the masters of information and machines or its slaves.
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Just Mercy (Movie Tie-In Edition)
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- 著者: Bryan Stevenson
- ナレーター: Bryan Stevenson
- 再生時間: 11 時間 11 分
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Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit.
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Until the End of Time
- Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
- 著者: Brian Greene
- ナレーター: Brian Greene
- 再生時間: 14 時間 36 分
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From the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe comes a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose. Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse.
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Atomic Habits
- An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- 著者: James Clear
- ナレーター: James Clear
- 再生時間: 5 時間 35 分
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No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving - every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power - which groups have it and which do not.
Beyond race or class, our lives are defined by a powerful, unspoken system of divisions. In Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson gives an astounding portrait of this hidden phenomenon. Linking America, India and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson reveals how our world has been shaped by caste - and how its rigid, arbitrary hierarchies still divide us today.
With clear-sighted rigour, Wilkerson unearths the eight pillars that connect caste systems across civilisations and demonstrates how our own era of intensifying conflict and upheaval has arisen as a consequence of caste. Weaving in stories of real people, she shows how its insidious undertow emerges every day, she documents its surprising health costs and she explores its effects on culture and politics. Finally, Wilkerson points forward to the ways we can - and must - move beyond its artificial divisions, towards our common humanity.
Beautifully written and deeply original, Caste is an eye-opening examination of what lies beneath the surface of ordinary lives. No one can afford to ignore the moral clarity of its insights or its urgent call for a freer, fairer world.
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- Love's Reading
- 2021/01/09
Truly “the lies that divide us”
I would recommend this book for everyone. The oppressed and the not oppressed. We can not change anything about the past but we can change the present and the future. As a black South African reading this book I found it helped shine the light on some reprogramming I may need to do in how I see myself and my abilities. But it also gave me insight on why the constitution says I’m free and yet do not feel free most times. It’s given me the courage to work out my freedom, reprogram my mind with intentionality. It is also helping me understand why some people still behave a particular way. Not to excuse the behavior but to understand it will be a process to unlearn.
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- EssieE
- 2021/01/08
A Serious Study of Race
Caste by Isabel Wilkersin is a study of race, its social, economic, and political manifestations. Unlike "The Warmth of Other Suns" which looks at migration within the United States, "Caste" draws a lot of references from the international experience. I would recommend the book for University level studies, but it does not make for at home listening for relaxation. Race is an extremely vexing subject; it is upsetting, disturbing, and often opens lots of wounds.
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- N. Cottle
- 2020/12/31
Super powerful book that opened my eyes
Loved it. It helped reframe things and gave me a chance to look at my NZ context through a different lens.
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- Emily
- 2020/11/22
Kind words from a Powerful Book
Isabel masterfully took me through an American History class. It is costly when a majority of Americans do not embrace their country's true past for the last 400 years that has seen the black minority degraded in all spheres of their lives. It's sad to see that the country is still struggling to agree to work on this vice. If America successfully ends Caste. I think you will become unstoppable because all people from all creeds, shape and color will truly be free to become all they were created to be.
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- Catalin
- 2020/11/13
Superb
I just finished listening this beautiful manifesto for a better world. Superbly written and excellently documented, this book must be read by anyone wishing to become a better human.
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- gillian wright
- 2020/10/19
An important and necessary education
Every human being should read this book. The education it afforded me was heartbreaking and entirely necessary. As an Irish woman who had spent a few years in America, I could see and feel the inequality but I did not understand the complexity and depths of it. A change is well over due, maybe this book will be a catalyst.
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- Sharlene Phillips
- 2020/10/14
Life changing
I loved every single peace of this book, its written in such a realistic yet assertive connotation. As a black female ftom central america I acknowledge the struggle my brothers ans sisters battle and I pray to God that we will find the way to overcome for our future generations.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/09/15
wow wow wow!
This book has helped me make sense of lingering stubborn racist sentiments in Post Apartheid South Africa , and constant sense of exclusion the native black people in this country still wrestle with. This book is highly recommended to the racist and excluded- all the same! Therein, lies the cause and cure. Selah...
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- Kahlah
- 2020/09/14
Exquisite ... a must read book for all of humanity
Extremely powerful book. I learnt so much... it’s thought provoking and the many stories which Isabel Wilkerson uses are powerful and memorable.
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- Natural Hair Weekly
- 2020/09/13
It was worth the pain of cognitive dissonance.
The book is thorough. It was a personally rewarding listen. This story was told through the lens of a black African American female who straddles many worlds of marginalization, privilege and power, bringing alive the concepts in a way that makes the book layered and worth reading multiple times. The book empowers, humiliates, angers and consoles as it takes us on a global journey that provides parallels and analogies that creates discomfort and a-ha moments. It provides a reference guide and framework for constructive debate and discussion. The book provides a call to action in order to empower people from different ‘castes’ to increase self awareness of the cultural codes of conduct that we are often unconsciously choosing to reinforce which is having a cataclysmic impact on the the way we all engage with the ‘mythology of power’ based on the illusion of our own superiority or inferiority which creates real consequences for the development of humanity. Many academics, cultural commentators and race experts have articulated the points in Isabel Wilkerson’s book before but her book provides a millennial language, full of references that make it relevant for a new generation whose behaviour is informed by history but now due to globalization and technology have the ability to access information to challenge a 400 year old system that is no longer sustainable and has become counterintuitive to human and economic development. The book provides food for thought and an invitation to radically redefine empathy. It is a book for all lives but especially those who have power and are ready to decide whether the history they create today by ignoring the past is the future they want their children to experience by reinforcing it. The book is not a panacea but its a perfect pandemic read, that may help us to calm the coming storm by taking the time we are inside our homes to take a look at what’s really going on inside our heads and challenge it. Thank you Isabel Wilkerson for going on this journey. You are appreciated.
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- Soulful j
- 2020/10/05
A must read.
A must read for all who want to give humanity its best chance. Get over yourself and get into the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/08/27
Brilliant book that should be required reading
Being of Indian origin I am only too aware of Caste and the pernicious nature thereof. It was revelatory to have caste applied to the American condition. I was engrossed from beginning to end. Be prepared to be put through a gamut of emotions, ranging from aching sadness to visceral rage at the treatment of our African American brothers and sisters at the hands of the dominant caste (white people). Such treatment spans slavery, Jim Crow through to the present day. I sincerely hope that this book is made required reading in schools, colleges and Universities in the US. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. A masterpiece. Thank you Isabel Wilkerson for your tour de force. In Solidarity.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020/09/29
Essential to one's education
The grim skeleton of the structural racism that haunts and frames modern American life is laid bare here. This book presents clearly the effect of the human impulse to create hierarchy and then to raise up that creation to quasi-religious status so that it may not be questioned or properly seen, understood and demolished. That American society should be held in a self-reinforcing vicious cycle that blinkers 'good people' to the cause of the malaise in their country, and simultaneously allows a moneyed elite to profiteer from the discord sown and cultivated between groups even as ALL are being sold an unattainable, unsustainable 'American Dream' is saddening beyond words. Wanting to persist with a child's faith in the fairytale of one's nation's history is a sign of immaturity: it's time to stop patronising so many people by not challenging this fantasy. It is my sincere hope that my fellow human beings on the far side of the Atlantic can rise to the hyperbole of the marketing of the USA as the 'land of the free'. Reading this book may just help some citizens to discover the 'matrix' and begin to find a way out of it.
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- Jeannette Adames
- 2020/09/11
Enlightening read about why we are where we are.
This is an essential read. At times I gasped for air to absorb the extent to the systematic dehumanization of African American people. And, yet as the moral scaffolding of our nation chips away, the book shines a light at how factors interact to create the social conditions in which the souls of those who strive for superiority degrade to an unthinkable pit of the human condition. This book will make you reflect on how your interactions, verbal and nonverbal, speak to who you are and aspire for the world to be.
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- ian
- 2020/09/09
a must read,
a must read, then share. vital in these unsettling times of caste and class stratification
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- Anonymous User
- 2021/01/15
Amazing
What an amazing roadmap for where we have been and where we want to be. Thanks a bundle
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- S.T
- 2020/12/31
I highly recommend this book!
I’ve recommended this book to everyone I know. Very educational, I’ve learned a lot. I
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- Unette
- 2020/12/30
Shocking but powerful.
Fantastic, albeit sometimes horrendously shocking account of American history where a systemic caste system not only still exists but also still has Black Afro Americans firmly entrenched at the bottom. This is truly a book that should be consumed by everyone, regardless of colour or heritage.
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- Nina Vodstrup Andersen
- 2020/10/24
A world without caste?
One of the absolutely most important and thought-provoking books of the decade. Astonishing breadth and depth.
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- Jerome Dominic
- 2020/10/10
Throughly enjoyed..
Beautifully written and narrated.A powerful book that can shake a lot of presuppositions and teach us a lot..
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- Anu
- 2020/08/24
Disappointed by the clumsy presentation.
I was expecting a more scholarly presentation but I was disappointed to encounter practically no discussion of political economics or serious analysis of history or sociology. Instead one is greeted with essentially one big long opinion piece illustrated with emotive anecdotes instead of data with historical context. Wilkerson's similar brevity in the scholarly department is even more painfully obvious in her treatment of Nazism and (especially) Hinduism. I would have given an extra 2 stars for performance, but the narrator's slipping into a nasty sounding voice (for the purpose of caricaturing various quotations) just adds an irritating element. Trying to establish historical categorical trans-cultural similarities (ie, " 8 pillars of caste") requires serious (ie. "sociological") investigation of both history and culture. One cannot go in merely with good intentions and a bevy of anecdotes and expect to come out the other side with something convincing or meaninful. I doubt that anyone already remotely familiar with the malevolent side of American history will learn anything from this book. In other words, our currently fractured societies will continue to fracture. Perhaps the book would be better if she just focused on her opinions and the anecdotes from American history. However even then, that would only work if she could paint forward some progressive path (or opinion) to a more egalitarian society .... which, again, is not something offered with this book.
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- Michelle
- 2020/09/19
A must read for every person
This book is a marvel. Wonderfully written, well researched and extraordinarily powerful. Many of the chapters I felt an overwhelm of emotions. Anger, sadness, disgust, shame, horror and disbelief. I exclaims out loud many times “wtf”. It’s hard to listen to the behaviour being discussed and know that it has happened, and still happens, in a country touted as been “great”. Change is needed now. If these atrocities were in any other country the UN would be speaking out. It was a personal journey for me in understanding the privilege I was born into. At one point in the book I wanted to put it down and walk away from the emotional pain. Then I realised that is the definition of white privilege that I can walk away when others cannot. So I stayed in it and felt the pain. Boy. Read this book. That’s all I can say. Read the book.
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- Kellie Davis
- 2020/11/08
Shocker
Racist, delusional. One eyed, sad propaganda Beautifully read Someone who was actually up on the electoral college fairness of the system would have made this book more credible
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- Anthony Cave
- 2020/11/02
Spurious correlations and false facts galore
I came in to this book looking to hear from alternative world view and to broaden my horizons and thinking. The opening salvo from this book was dripping with extreme emotive bias with very little factual support. Including news articles that were debunked, correlated completely unrelated events with the 2016 presidential election and completely ignored the greater socio political forces occurring around the election. I came to have my biases challenged, instead I got 'orange man bad' the book.
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- 匿名
- 2020/10/25
Caste in society
Amazing audiobook which will shock the listener and provide an understanding of the meaning of caste Highly recommended
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- Mary
- 2020/09/29
Very thought provoking
I love Isabels narration this book is so thought provoking, I went through so many emotions listening to this audiobook. Could not stop listening. Definitely one of the best books Ive listened to this year!
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- 2020/09/23
An essential read.
The world, not just America, desperately needs this book. It should be taught in schools everywhere as essential reading. Profoundly wise. Brilliantly narrated.
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- 2020/08/31
Magnanimous !! Hard HITTING !! REAL
The most amazing book I've read this year. Isobel is a legend and opens ones eyes to the bigotry the world is made of. Along with pointing out the fractions in our society she also points to a way forward out and towards a more inclusive future. 5 stars all the way.
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- Kawa Koliavu
- 2020/08/19
Powerful Read
Loved it! but found Racism and Castism as interchangeable terms so would've liked a bit more expansion on how these terms differ and the importance of being able to differentiate between the two.
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- James
- 2020/08/18
See yourself and others from a clarified perspective
Sometimes a concept, often assumed to already be known or understood, is presented with such a level of clarity that it grants you a new way to see the world. That is Caste, through which you will be able to recognize the structures buttressing the social and economic expectations we have for each other, hiding in plain sight.