Tribe Classics • Minorities

• Minorities

van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists

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bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions—now with a new Afterword by the author

Tribe Classics • MinoritiesWe have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding "tribes." This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost