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Aug 15, 2024 · According to award-winning author Isabel Wilkerson, the death of Tyre Nichols is just the latest tragedy to shine a light on America's long-standing but unspoken social hierarchy. In her recent Time Magazine cover story Wilkerson states, “From Jan. 6 to Tyre Nichols, American life is still defined by caste."
Aug 26, 2024 · It documents the fascinating and, at times, heart breaking process that Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson endured while developing her ideas for Caste: The Origins...
Aug 16, 2024 · In this timely lecture, Isabel Wilkerson addresses the persistence of racial injustice as a national challenge and what history can teach us as we work to resolve it. 6:00-6:40 PM – Lecture 6:40-7:00 PM: Facilitated Q & A
Aug 14, 2024 · If you haven’t seen ORIGIN – Ava DuVernay ’s film about Isabel Wilkerson ’s life and why and how she came to write CASTE – I urge you to. If you have seen it, I’d love to know how it made you feel, what it made you think and, most importantly, what it made you do or think about doing.
Aug 19, 2024 · That movie is based on Wilkerson's book "Caste," where she explores the concept of caste systems, drawing parallels to India, Nazi Germany and the United States.
4 days ago · In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Knopf, 2010). The book won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction,
Sep 2, 2024 · In her latest book, Caste, Isabel Wilkerson explores an idea that isn’t new, but also one that isn’t well understood: the idea that slavery, rigid Jim Crow segregation, and ongoing racial strife in America are products of a caste system. Ask most Americans to identify a caste system and they might mention the untouchables of India.
