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 ...

Ava DuVernay will adapt a new feature film for Netflix based on the nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” The book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, examines race ...

Apr. 24—One of the best of many excellent new books about race in America is Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." Her main thesis is that racism in America is part of a larger ...

Explore the origins of the caste system, rooted in political and economic factors rather than purity, pollution, or race.

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 ...

In March 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign nearly imploded when reporters revealed that his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., regularly blasted the United States as irredeemably racist. “[The ...

This cover image released by Random House shows "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. Oprah Winfrey has chosen Wilkersons Caste as her new book club selection. The book looks at ...

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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 ...

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 ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York ...

The acclaimed book explores social stratification in the U.S. by comparing it to India and Nazi Germany's caste systems. Ava DuVernay will adapt a new feature film for Netflix based on the nonfiction ...