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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Epigraph
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 the 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 Bear 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
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Other Titles
About the Author
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