Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

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USA Today

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

#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 ...

Remembering Andre Beteille: 5 books that define the study of caste and class

Here are some of André Béteille’s most important works, which continue to shape sociological thinking in India and beyond: ...
Time

Ava DuVernay on the Urgency and Artistry of Historical Drama Origin

Laura Zornosa is a reporter at TIME. Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) and her husband Brett Kelly Hamilton (Jon Bernthal) in 'Origin.' Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) and her husband ...

Caste and the violence of looking away

Suraj Yengde’s Caste is an unflinching examination of how hierarchy adapts, travels, and survives in modern life ...
AOL

Tia Williams on Emma Cline, 'Caste,' and the Book That Has the Best Opening Line

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Los Angeles Times

With ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay tackles race issues through a new lens

Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction book “Caste” is a sort of biography of an idea, and an elusive idea at that. Americans tend to be pretty literate about race and class. Caste? Not so much, at least ...
The Wire

Anand Teltumbde's Insightful, Provocative Critique of Caste Enumeration

'The Case Con Census' revisits numerous previous scholarly debates on caste and problematises the politics surrounding caste and identity in modern India. This article went live on January ...
Chicago Sun-Times

‘Origin’ poignantly adapts a brilliant book by tracing its author’s work

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NPR

This new MacArthur “genius” says she defied caste prejudice thanks to Dad and Mom

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...
WKRG

Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ among finalists for book critics awards

NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year’s finalists for National Book Critics Circle ...
Chicago Tribune

‘Origin’ review: From the unfilmable bestseller ‘Caste,’ Ava DuVernay finds the only possible movie

“You can’t be walking around at night, on a white street, and not expect trouble.” Author Isabel Wilkerson’s mother has likely said something like this before, in one of any number of tragic contexts.