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Section 1: "Part One: Toxins in the Permafrost and Heat Rising All Around"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House, 2020. Hardcover.

• "Part One: Toxins in the Permafrost and Heat Rising All Around" begins with Chapter One, "The Afterlife of Pathogens."

• Wilkerson notes that in the summer of 2016, unprecedented heat caused serious environmental and health consequences for the Nenets people of Yamal, a Siberian peninsula.

• During the heat wave, anthrax left over from WWII had been released from the permafrost.

• Wilkerson compares racism to this leftover anthrax, lying dormant but still potent and dangerous.

• She compares the thaw to the American 2016 election.

• She says that it was dormant racism that was awakened by demographic shifts and by the Obama presidency that caused the results of the 2016 election.

• She offers several anecdotal illustrations of overt...

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