Tuesday, February 23, 2021: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

CLASS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM. ZOOM INFORMATION WILL BE EMAILED TO REGISTRANTS PRIOR TO CLASS START TIME.

In observance of African American History Month, please join the LA Law Library book discussion of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Wilkerson’s powerful social history traces the inception of this country’s race-based “ranking of human value’ to the arrival of the first slave ship in 1619 and draws on the works of anthropologists, geneticists and social economists to uncover the arbitrariness of racial divisions, finding startling parallels to the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany. Join the discussion and share your thoughts on this difficult but important subject.

Caste:

• Number 1 Non Fiction Book of the Year – Time Magazine
• One of Top Ten Books of 2020 – Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, People
• One of Best Books of 2020 – New York Times Book Review, NPR, Christian Science Monitor, NYPL, Library Journal, Kirkus and more
• Wilkerson is author of the acclaimed non-fiction chronicle of the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns, and winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

Presented by: Katie O’Laughlin, Managing Librarian, Reference & Research

Registration fee: FREE