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Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an African-American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. [1]
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House.The book describes racism in the United States as an aspect of a caste system—a society-wide system of social stratification characterized by notions such as hierarchy, inclusion and exclusion, and purity.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration is a 2010 non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson.The book provides a detailed historical account of the Great Migration, a movement of approximately six million African Americans from the Southern United States to the Midwest, Northeast, and West between 1915 and 1970.
“Ava DuVernay takes on an ambitious project, adapting Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer-winning Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents for the screen, by interweaving her rich research with a human ...
As Isabel Wilkerson noted in her Pulitzer-winning book “Caste”: “from Reconstruction to the civil rights era, southern boards spent as little as one-tenth the money on black schools as for ...
Actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is front and center in Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” a film interpretation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction bestseller and Oprah's Book ...
Origin is a 2023 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ava DuVernay.It is based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, as she writes the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s seminal book Caste did not get a single nomination, but the film’s awards campaign seemed noticeably lacking as a whole. The director even ...