Next up: Caste

The anti-racism Sunday reflection group is nearing the end of its current book, and has already chosen its next.

The group meets via Zoom at from 1:00pm to 2:00pm Sundays. It is rounding the corner on finishing One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson.  For the next conversation we will take up the popular book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. Here is a portion of Amazon’s review: “This book points to our entire social structure as an unrecognized caste system. Most people see America as racist, and Wilkerson agrees that it is indeed racist. She points out that we tend to refer to slavery as a “sad, dark chapter” in America when in fact it lasted for hundreds of years—but in order to maintain a social order and an “economy whose bottom gear was torture” (as Wilkerson quotes the historian Edward Baptist), it was necessary to give blacks the lowest possible status. Whites in turn got top status.”

The Sunday discussion is not a closed group. New participants can join at any time, but it works best when we are transitioning from one book to another.

More information will be available next week as to the starting date for this book. Here is the Amazon link.