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Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an 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.
Learn about Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste, two acclaimed books on the history and legacy of the Great Migration and caste systems. Explore her biography, books, awards, lectures, and media appearances.
May 13, 2024 · Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961, Washington, D.C., U.S.) is known for chronicling the lives of unsung African Americans and exposing deeply embedded systems of social injustice in her reporting for The New York Times and in her celebrated works of nonfiction: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020) and The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson says racism is an insufficient term for the systemic oppression of Black people in America. Instead, she prefers to refer...
Isabel Wilkerson is a Pulitzer-winning journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns, a book about the Great Migration. She explores the history, the challenges and the stories of the people who moved from the South to the North in the 20th century.
Mar 17, 2023 · The author of a seminal work on caste in the US talks about America’s uncertain future and her ‘narrative drive’. Isabel Wilkerson was inspired by a story on the re-emergence of anthrax that ...
Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ and the Great Migration. The former first lady’s long-awaited new memoir recounts with insight, candor and wit her family’s trajectory ...
