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Caste warms my spirit with a new sun

Revisado: 10-11-20

Ms. Wilkerson’s poetic language is best digested via one’s ears. The narrator’s voice amplifies the critical premise of the thesis. This book gave me a nomenclature/lexicon to describe a phenomenon that was familiar to me as a Black person in America, but couldn’t articulate.
Ms. Wilkerson makes visible the irony of a country that celebrates the myth of rugged individualism; all the while, its collective progress is thwarted by its fixation with a system of caste.
She destroys the myth of “American Exceptionalism” as she holds the American hierarchy to the reflective light of Nazi Germany and the caste system of India.

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Cowboy Christianity

Revisado: 08-17-20

This book is quite insightful, and makes apparent that Trump is the the only logical outcome of the White Christian nationalism that has been ascendant since WW2.
This is a must read for those who seek to pull down the “strongholds” of misogyny, xenophobia, and racism that exalt themselves above the knowledge of God, while cloaking themselves in bad and heretical theology.

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Middle Class was middle of the Road

Revisado: 07-18-20

This read gave me perspective about our contemporary condition in America. When journalists are forever referring to the middle class, they are talking about a population, which basically ended in 1968. The middle class is a group of white Americans whose mores and beliefs were shaped by the Depression and the Cold War. No wonder contemporary analysis is so off base, it’s anachronistic.
But the analysis felt as “middlebrow” as the population Stebenne writes about. His conclusions are so middling, as not to offend those on the right or left. No doubt, the middle class would be content with this book.

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