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When Oprah called Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson to tell her that she had selected Caste to be her latest Oprah's Book Club pick, Wilkerson was surprised—and moved by Oprah's words. Oprah promised that she'd call everyone she knew to tell them about the book, which she said had "touched her soul."
Caste is a remarkable work of history, both a prayer for humanity and a way of seeing the evolution of inequality through an entirely new lens. It traces the roots of American racism back to another continent centuries ago, and uses the metaphor of an old house to describe how we can begin to take responsibility for something we didn't ourselves initiate.
Wilkerson's book also reveals that the Third Reich drew on Jim Crow era laws to inform its own reign of terror, and gives us insights into the role of endogamy in enforcing racist policies. Reading Caste, you may be astonished at what you didn't learn in high school or college about Reconstruction, Jim Crow, how and why "race" was invented—and much more.
View the full story on Oprah Daily: Isabel Wilkerson Recalls the Moment She Learned Caste Was an Oprah's Book Club Pick.
Caste is a remarkable work of history, both a prayer for humanity and a way of seeing the evolution of inequality through an entirely new lens. It traces the roots of American racism back to another continent centuries ago, and uses the metaphor of an old house to describe how we can begin to take responsibility for something we didn't ourselves initiate.
Wilkerson's book also reveals that the Third Reich drew on Jim Crow era laws to inform its own reign of terror, and gives us insights into the role of endogamy in enforcing racist policies. Reading Caste, you may be astonished at what you didn't learn in high school or college about Reconstruction, Jim Crow, how and why "race" was invented—and much more.
View the full story on Oprah Daily: Isabel Wilkerson Recalls the Moment She Learned Caste Was an Oprah's Book Club Pick.
Published 08/31/2020
