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Welcome to Forum from KQED Public Radio.

I'm Michael Krasny.

During a time of protests and civil unrest, many Americans are calling for an end to institutional racism.

But what does that mean?

In her new book, Cast, The Origins of Our Discontents, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson argues that American society formed around a deep-seated race-based caste system that is so ingrained many people don't notice it.

Wilkison spent years researching how caste works in America as well as India's 3,000-year-old system and the one used in Nazi Germany.

Bookerson joins Forum to discuss her book and how America's past relates to its future. That's all next. Join us after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Michael Krasny. In her new book, Cast, the origins of our discontents,

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents an examination of which he sees as America's

often disguised but very real caste system. The book compares America's system with those in India and Nazi Germany

and delves into how America betrays its ideals of meritocracy by instead cultivating an insidious hierarchy based on race.

Cast is a much anticipated follow-up to Wilkerson's 2011 book, The Warmth of Other Suns, which detailed the decades-long migration of

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