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305.5122 WILKER 2020
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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...

2) Jackpot: how the super-rich really live--and how their wealth harms us all

Author

Mechanic, Michael

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.5234 MECHAN 2021
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.5234 MECHAN 2021
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"A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all"--

3) The 9.9 percent: the new aristocracy that is entrenching inequality and warping our culture

Author

Stewart, Matthew

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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Senior Center Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.5209 STEWAR 2021
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"A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--

4) Inequality in America: race, poverty, and fulfilling democracy's promise

Author

Caliendo, Stephen M

Publisher

Westview Press

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Language

English

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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
305.512 CALIEN 2015
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"Why does inequality have such a hold on American society and public policy? And what can we, as citizens, do about it? Inequality in America takes an in-depth look at individual-level and systemic inequality, focusing in particular on race, poverty, and gender, across a wide range of issues from housing and education to crime, employment and health. Caliendo shows how individual-level prejudice and systemic inequality are interrelated, how individual...