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In "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" (Random House), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend ...
The book explores the ways the United States has an unspoken caste system, mirroring in haunting ways the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany. Wilkerson did an extensive amount of research to ...
Oprah Winfrey continues her dialogue on race and is going in-depth with her latest Oprah's Book Club selection, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," by Isabel Wilkerson.In addition to her ...
In November 2020, the DEI Shared Interest Group’s (SIG’s) book club read Isabel Wilkerson’s book, “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.” Wilkerson’s book is about how brutal ...
The caste system disguises itself by making us see race traits as real and immutable, and anti-racist work as simply the elimination of prejudiced thinking. The real problem, Wilkerson argues ...
Chat in the Stacks: Assistant Professor Julia Chang Discusses Her New Book, "Blood Novel, Gender, Caste, and Race in Spanish Realism" By Sarah Young Oct 13, 2022 5:36 pm · Updated Oct 13, 2022 9: ...
Wilkerson, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and author of the best-selling 2010 book The Warmth of Other Suns, builds on her previous success in her new book, Caste, which will be ...
In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr., visiting India and seeing its caste system, realized he was a kind of untouchable in his own land. It's one of many stories told in the new book "Caste: ...
Wilkerson’s new book makes unsettling comparisons between India’s treatment of its untouchables, Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews and America’s treatment of African-Americans.
'Caste' Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans Isabel Wilkerson's second book is a masterwork of writing — a profound achievement of scholarship and research ...