Caste: the origins of our discontents

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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.

The man in the crowd

Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around. The afterlife of pathogens ; The vitals of history ; An old house and an infrared light ; An American untouchable ; An invisible program

The arbitrary construction of human divisions. A long-running play and the emergence of caste in America ; "The container we have built for you" ; The measure of humanity ; Through the fog of Delhi to the parallels in India and America ; The Nazis and the acceleration of caste ; The evil of silence

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 Mudsil ; 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

The tentacles of caste. Brown eyes versus blue eyes ; Central miscasting ; Dominant group status threat and the precarity of the highest rung ; A scapegoat to bear the sins of the world ; The insecure alpha and the purpose of an underdog ; The intrusion of caste in everyday life ; The urgent necessity of a bottom rung ; Last place anxiety: packed in a flooding basement ; On the early front lines of caste ; Satchel Paige and the illogic of caste

The consequences of caste. The euphoria of hate ; The inevitable narcissism of caste ; The German girl with the dark, wavy hair ; The Stockholm syndrome and the survival of the subordinate caste ; Shock troops on the borders of hierarchy ; Cortisol, telomeres, and the lethality of caste

Backlash. A change in the script ; Turning point and the resurgence of caste ; The symbols of caste ; Democracy on the ballot ; The price we pay for a caste system

Awakening. Shedding the sacred thread ; The radicalization of the dominant caste ; The heart is the last frontier

Epilogue: a world without caste.