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 ...

Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and two-time author, but she is also in a sense an archeologist. She does not just tell stories of the past, but excavates them, sifting through ...

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 ...

#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 ...

Last month, Oprah Winfrey declared Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson one of her most important Book Club selections ever and announced several related tie-ins with Apple ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson has written an immediate classic with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The veteran journalist examines race in America through the prism of caste, ...

More often, Islam’s egalitarian principles are invoked by Muslims to avoid deeper engagement with the question of caste ...

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 ...