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Stay Tuned with Preet

America's Caste System (with Isabel Wilkerson)

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned with Preet, “America’s Caste System,” Preet answers listener questions about New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against the National Rifle Association and about the latest in the never-ending saga of the Michael Flynn case. Then, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson joins Preet for a conversation about her new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” Wilkerson explains the difference between caste and race, the ways that Nazi Germany drew inspiration from American racism, and the need for radical empathy as we deal with our own enduring caste system. For show notes and a transcript of the episode, head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/americas-caste-system-with-isabel-wilkerson/ To listen to Stay Tuned bonus content, become a member of CAFE Insider at: CAFE.com/Insider Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring analysis of politically charged legal news, updates from Preet, and analysis from Elie Honig, at: CAFE.com/brief And if you haven’t already, listen to a sample from this week’s episode of the CAFE Insider podcast for free at CAFE.com or in the Stay Tuned feed. As always, tweet your questions to @PreetBharara with hashtag #askpreet, email us at [email protected], or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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slash verified. From Cafe, welcome to Stay Tuned. I'm Pete Barara. The reason why I think

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Cass is such a useful term and understanding human interactions and the impulse to categorize

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and then rank is that it has a potential to take, certainly Americans away from the

1:14.9

emotions get that get attached to race and racism. That's Isabelle Wilkerson. She's a

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Pulitzer Prize winning author and her new book is Cast, The Origins of Our Discontents.

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It's a powerful and profoundly timely meditation on the way that hierarchies form across the

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sides, from the United States to India to Nazi Germany. Wilkerson has been at the forefront

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of journalism and historical scholarship for three decades. Her 2010 book, The Warmth

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of Other Sons, is a richly researched history of the great migration of African Americans

1:48.2

to the North during the first half of the 20th century and it's already a classic. Wilkerson

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and I discuss the differences between race and caste, why the United States is like an

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