(OK, we know we can’t fool you – today is the fourth Thursday) This monthly column offers reflections from members of the Racial Justice Working Group. Anyone is welcome to write a message here – just contact one of us! Where’s your place in the caste system? Many of you recently participated […]
Many church people have read the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson this summer. It is a unique view into the origins of racial strife in the United States. Using that perspective, Wilkerson leads us in identifying the aspects of caste that we live out today. Julianne Zimmerman will lead us in a discussion about the […]
Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. She examines different caste systems around the […]