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Caste: the origins of our discontents
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From the Book - First edition.
The man in the crowd
Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around
The arbitrary construction of human divisions
The eight pillars of caste
The tentacles of caste
The consequences of caste
Backlash
Awakening
Epilogue: A world without caste.
From the CD-Book - Unabridged.
The man in the crowd
Part one: Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around. Chapter one: The afterlife of pathogens
The Vitals of History
Chapter two: An old house and an infrared light
Chapter three: An American untouchable
An Invisible Program
Part two: The arbitrary construction of human divisions. Chapter four: A long-running play and emergence of caste in America
Chapter five: "The Container We Have Built for You"
Chapter six: The measure of humanity
Chapter seven: Through the fog of Delhi to the parallels in India and America
Chapter eight: The Nazis and the acceleration of caste
Chapter nine: The Evil of Silence
Part three: The eight pillars of caste. The foundations of caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Pillar number one: Divine will and the laws of nature
Pillar number two: Heritability
Pillar number three: Endogamy and the control of marriage and mating
Pillar number four: Purity versus pollution
Pillar number five: Occupational hierarchy: The Jatis and the Mudsill
Pillar number six: Dehumanization and stigma
Pillar number seven: Terror as enforcement, cruelty as a means of control
Pillar number eight: Inherent superiority versus inherent inferiority
Part four: The tentacles of caste. Brown eyes versus blue eyes
Chapter ten: Central miscasting
Chapter eleven: Dominant group status threat and the precarity of the highest rung
Chapter twelve: A scapegoat to beat the sins of the world
Chapter thirteen: The insecure Alpha and the purpose of an underdog
Chapter fourteen: The intrusion of caste in everyday life
Chapter fifteen: The urgent necessity of a bottom rung
Chapter sixteen: Last place anxiety: Packed in a flooding basement
Chapter seventeen: On the early front lines of caste
Chapter eighteen: Satchel Paige and the illogic of caste
Part five: The consequences of caste. Chapter nineteen: The Euphoria of Hate
Chapter twenty: The inevitable narcissism of caste
Chapter twenty-one: The German girl with the dark, wavy hair
Chapter twenty-two: The Stockholm Syndrome and the survival of the subordinate caste
Chapter twenty-three: Shock troops on the borders of hierarchy
Chapter twenty-four: Cortisol, telomeres and the lethality of caste
Part six: Backlash, Chapter twenty-five: A change in the script
Chapter twenty-six: Turning point and the resurgence of caste
Chapter twenty-seven: The symbols of caste
Chapter twenty-eight: Democracy on the ballot
Chapter twenty-nine: The price we pay for a caste system
Part seven: Awakening. Chapter thirty: Shedding the sacred thread
The Radicalization of the Dominant Caste
Chapter thirty-one: The heart is the last frontier
Epilogue: A world without caste.
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9780593230251
9780593230268
9780593339817
9780593396698
9780593230268
9780593339817
9780593396698
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