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 ...
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Researching her new book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” so disturbed Isabel Wilkerson that its acknowledgments thank the music that helped her get through it. The follow-up to Wilkerson’s ...
The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...
U.S. cities are deeply segregated, often with streets or highways separating higher-income predominantly White neighborhoods from lower-income predominantly Black ones. This is not an accident of ...
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The beloved star will also be the first-ever guest editor for Apple News Oprah Winfrey revealed her latest book club pick, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, on Tuesday. And ...
A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be inextricable, its ...
The artist Grace Lynne Haynes describes her process for portraying the American abolitionist Sojourner Truth's fight for broader equality in her first New Yorker cover. The Political Scene John ...
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“If people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?” Taylor Branch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the civil rights movement, drops that ...