"A Decontextualized, Ahistorical, and Inaccurate Description of Racial Antagonism, Caste, and Class"

"In Wilkerson's book, oppression and exploitation are understood through indignities that starkly remind the Black elite of their Blackness. The class perspective offered throughout Caste—shown through anecdotes such as being slighted in the first-class cabin of a flight, facing mistreatment from white workers who are beneath Wilkerson in terms of class but above her based on 'caste,' and living in an affluent neighborhood but not being treated with the dignity afforded her white neighbors—is particularly ironic given Wilkerson's failure to account for how class structures race relations in the United States." 

At Boston Review, Charisse Burden-Stelly reviews Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.