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The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction
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The Best Books of 2020: Non-Fiction

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 / 11 December 2020

In the stormy year of 2020 PopMatters' staff have clung to anything seemingly solid with one hand while holding a good book in the other. Through it all, we are curious, engaged, and eager to share what we've read with you.

Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Reveals the Other Kind of American Exceptionalism
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Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Reveals the Other Kind of American Exceptionalism

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 / 31 July 2020

Comparing the American race-based class system to that of India and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson makes us see a familiar evil in a different light with Caste.

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‘The Warmth of Other Suns’: A Time When the Bible Itself Was Segregated

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