Oprah Winfrey reveals 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents' as latest book club pick

Oprah Winfrey announced "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by author Isabel Wilkerson as her newest book club selection. Winfrey and Gayle King discuss the book's timely message about understanding inequality and finding common ground with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

[kindnesstoall]

Caste needs to be a must read in schools.

[patriciaj.williamssisterly]

What an amazing and revealing book and a powerfully beautiful movie (Origin)

[khiam]

All human all over earth need to read or hear about this book...because every where there is hidden

[hustlerofculture]

This book ignores Native Americans, Chinese Americans, Hispanic Americans, and the way in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that Irish Americans and Italian Americans and all immigrants from "the low countries" in Europe were also treated by the largely Protestant and Catholic (State of Maryland) hegemony in the United States. If you just look at New Orleans and the Creole system, there were many delineations, not a Bipolar one.
Wilkerson also says she was surprised to discover that the Nazis used Jim crow laws as a template for their own. Any college graduate knows this.
America's racism has NEVER been Bipolar.
This book ignores so much. Sad.

[janicekemoli]

False barriers. Wow. This book is what humanity needs.🇰🇪💃🏽😊

[tiffanypeppers]

It's not about Oprah...its about Anglo Saxons always get more praise or and better treatment than any other color in U.S. If I were Anglo Saxon I would feel attacked too. Please don't feel offended. But ask is...could this have any validity...!?!?

[Pradeep.Singh.d]

You can take Indian out, but you can't take caste out of an indian.
Sad truth of indian society. Defaming india and indian on foreign land.

[nghtwtchmn]

A multi-millionaire and a billionaire complaining about oppression.

[rexbanner]

Why can I not report this straight up racism?

[neeshespieces]

I doubt our CEOs or governors or leaders are gonna really read it.

[exeterline]

Apparently, she doesn't know which group to pander to to get richer.

[narieee]

I'm not even American nor am I black or white. But the mere fact that the author who happens to be black could speak out against the alleged "dominant class" negates her very proposition..

[Solmom]

These comments are ridiculous but mainly from people who don’t read or think they know everything already...

I can’t wait to get my copy!

[eeyumpeeyum]

Actually, Sex and the City (Season 2) in an episode entitled ‘The Caste System’, kinda talked about a caste-driven American society. Hehe!

[eComy]

Caste is a graded slavery, still persists in an rigid form, easily anyone can see untouchables are underrepresented and compelled to live in extreme poverty, physically segregated despite they have earned money. Jai bheem

[sunshinecoolwater]

Two rich lesbians try to make a narrative on morning tv news.

[hook]

Here’s a good place to start if y’all wanna blame someone for y’all’s problems

[ChrysanthsMum]

I can only laugh at them. Please remember, rubber bands snap back.

[sudhacarawraunaccaw]

It has generated extraordinary reverberations among the global Intelligentsia... looking forward to place an order for the book from Amazon, and I request Indian readers to tell me if kind enough the price of the book in Rupees pl🙏

[KAILASHKUMAR-drku]

Now then a book gives us the factual causes . Caste in India is the real root .