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Isabel Wilkerson

“We think we ‘see’ race when we encounter certain physical differences among people such as skin color eye shape, and hair texture,” the Smedleys wrote. “What we actually ‘see’ … are the learned social meanings, the stereotypes, that have been linked to those physical features by the ideology of race and the historical legacy it has left us.”

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
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