We are reading Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9780593230251 This NEW book is getting lots of rave reviews and even our community’s most seasoned anti-racists will find something to learn here!

 

This week we will be studying Chapter 11: Dominant group status threat and the precarity of the highest rung, in which Wilkerson takes on the extremely important political phenomenon of despair and resentment among less-educated white Americans who are seeing their status fall, the reality of social programs and redlining that actually benefited them over black Americans into the 1960s, and the unconscious bias that still leads to discrimination in employment, healthcare, and all other aspects of life. This is a chapter packed with compelling arguments. Even if you haven’t participated in the discussion thus far, I encourage you to join us for a lively political discussion!

 

Please don’t hesitate to join us at any time — this is an OPEN group! If you have met with us in the past, please rejoin us. We miss you! If you’ve been thinking of joining us, but haven’t yet, now is a great time to jump in! Here’s the link: https://meet.google.com/coc-cypc-rjw If you haven’t had a chance to read, come anyway and we will start with a brief synopsis and read aloud sections of the chapter to discuss.