Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. She was the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Wilkerson was the editor-in-chief of the Howard University college newspaper, interned at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, and became the Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times. She also taught at Emory, Princeton, Northwestern, and Boston University.
Wilkerson interviewed over a thousand people for The Warmth of Other Suns, which documents the stories of African Americans who migrated to northern and western cities during the 20th century. Her book Caste identifies the racial hierarchy in the United States as a caste system. Both books were best-sellers.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste is a term often reserved for Indian civilization, but journalist Isabel Wilkerson argues that United States history reveals unnerving parallels to India’s ancient system. In Wilkerson’s estimation, both caste systems have been legally abolished, but the caste mindset remains and hamstrings the unity and justice that American society desperately needs.
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