Origin: Caste, Class, or Race? The danger of not knowing the difference. 

George Middleton Ms. Wilkerson asserts that the issue of inequality is not because of the system of race i.e. racism, but that of another system, the Caste system. The author of Caste passionately states that in America we call everything racist, and that we are mistakenly using racism as the primary language to solve our dilemma of inequality. Wilkerson’s theory is that we should be using the Caste system as that primary language instead, as she believes there is a link between the Caste system of India to the practice of racism in America. The objective of this article analysis is not to convince you of the accuracy or inaccuracy of her premise, or to get you to agree or disagree. It is only to offer accurate information with which to develop your own understanding of her writing and production based in critical thought. In order to effectively assess her assertion and the validity of her works‘ conclusion, a true understanding of the following terms that she uses interchangeably, caste, class, and race is required. Let‘s set the operational definitions for these terms. Caste Caste system is a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in...