Isabel Wilkerson Books
Isabel Wilkerson is an award-winning American author and journalist. In 1994, she became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Her second and latest book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, was published in 2020.
The Warmth of Other Suns
What's The Warmth of Other Suns about?
The Warmth of Other Suns (2010) tells the story of the Great Migration – the biggest inner-border mass migration in US history. From 1915 to 1970, millions of Black Americans left the Jim Crow South in search of a better life in Northern cities. Focusing on the lives of three of those migrants, these blinks paint a vivid picture of the fears, hopes, and dreams that shaped the movement.
Who should read The Warmth of Other Suns?
- Curious minds who want to learn about an underexplored chapter of US history
- Fans of biographical and eyewitness accounts of the past
- Anyone interested in the social and demographic forces that shaped America
What's Caste about?
Caste (2020) takes a revealing look at the caste system that continues to exist in American society, and its disturbing similarities to caste systems in India and WWII-era Germany. It explains how the attitudes of the dominant castes have become ingrained, on conscious and subconscious levels, through generations of subjugation. You’ll find out what it takes to maintain a caste system as well as what can be done to break free from it.
Who should read Caste?
- People interested in American politics
- History buffs
- Those curious about how inequality can persist in a society