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Adrienne Harris references two important books from 2020, Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, and Judith Butler’s The Power of Nonviolence. Here we bring them into conversation, comparing Wilkerson’s reframing of systemic racism as a rigid caste system with Butler’s advocacy of radical equality imagined as antidote to assumptions and practices that perpetuate abandoning lives considered ungrievable.