Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR * TIME'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR

"An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"[Caste] changes the lens through which we see the world."--Oprah Winfrey for Time, "25 Books That Capture This American Moment"

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions--now with a new afterword by the author.

"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not."

Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's fate. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and more. Using riveting stories about people--including Martin Luther King, Jr., baseball's Satchel Paige, a single father and his toddler son, Wilkerson herself, and many others--she shows the ways that the insidious undertow of caste is experienced every day. Finally, she points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity.

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award * Dayton Literary Prize Finalist * PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist * PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Finalist * Kirkus Prize Finalist

Isabel Wilkerson, the New York Times' Chicago bureau chief, earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1994 for her reporting. She was the first black woman and the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize for solo reporting in the history of American journalism. For her coverage of the Midwest, she received the George Polk Award, and for her research on the Great Migration, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She's given talks on narrative writing at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation, and she's been the Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and the James M. Emory University's Cox Jr Professor of Journalism

She is currently the Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University and a Professor of Journalism. Her parents moved from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington, D.C., where she was born and raised, during the Great Migration. This is her debut novel.

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ISBN 13	9780593230275
ISBN 10	0593230272
Title	Caste
Author	Isabel Wilkerson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2023-02-14
Number of pages	544
Prizes	Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2022, Short-listed for Kirkus Prize 2022, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2022, Short-listed for PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction 2022, Long-listed for National Book Award 2022, Long-listed for PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 2022
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