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August 1, 2021
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August 1, 2021
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March 20, 2024
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March 20, 2024
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"Wilkerson is a powerful writer. I used two brief passages from WARMTH as models when I was teaching writing. It is a pleasure to read. I am writing a novel about future catastrophe. People ask if this is worst case scenario. No, the worst looks like what's really coming. My novel suggests how we might survive as a species."
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March 22, 2024
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"Beautiful analogies and similes—Wilkerson is a powerful writer. I am already arguing with her, of course. I wonder when she will deal with the bottom of the American caste system once including Irish and Italian immigrants? And gender, which remains the one form of bigotry that is too often considered acceptable and even defended today."
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March 24, 2024
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"I am still arguing with a worthy opponent. Although I agree with her broad thesis about caste, I cannot accept her dismissal of gender as an issue, and her explanation of the plight of Native Americans. Since they had no monetary value to the ruling elite, she states, they are not even a part of the caste system. Really? They suffered extermination, lower life expectancy, and poverty; both fetishizing and ridicule."
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March 26, 2024
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"Like her first book, I suspect an excellent thesis is going to drown in flood of exposition. Until then, there is India & Germany to look forward to.
The "ultimate" caste system in America is money. The overt caste system is a mess of race, religion, heritage, and gender. White men may think they are always above "others" but in real life, money takes the prize. Billionaires blame us for not being them. They blame."
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The "ultimate" caste system in America is money. The overt caste system is a mess of race, religion, heritage, and gender. White men may think they are always above "others" but in real life, money takes the prize. Billionaires blame us for not being them. They blame."
March 29, 2024
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"Read some reviews and was heartened that others questioned why her examinations of other caste systems limited to just Nazis and India, why in the American caste systems she so promptly discards gender and Native peoples, why she seems so unaware of classism... Her anecdotal examples are horrifying and true, but sometimes not typical or limited to Black peoples' experiences here and throughout the world."
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June 8, 2024
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