Please get the book above and answer the following questions:
Part 5 – The Consequences of Caste
There is a narcissism to caste, since the dominant caste becomes the goalpost and standard against which other castes are measured, and everyone else “is trained to covet proximity to the dominant caste”.
Part of this narcissism means that people within the dominant caste are able to draw self-esteem, even if misplaced, from it, and therefore they are willing to sacrifice in order to preserve this group and their source of self-esteem. That need to preserve the group can give rise to radicalism or fascism. Social psychologist Erich Fromm theorizes that those seeking to preserve the dominant caste can be drawn to narcissistic leaders, since they see their “fortunes and fates as their own” and they are attracted to the lack of doubts in their leader.
• Find at list one example of this “caste narcissism”Which example did you choose and why ?
Part 2
use the same book and answer this question?
Wilkerson recounts a conversation in 2015 (amidst the backlash against Obama’s presidency and the specter of Trump), about how much and to what era the country has backtracked or regressed in terms of social justice.
Question: List 2 examples discussed by Wilkerson that demonstrates how the “backlash” caused the regression in terms of social justice.
