This book is amazing. The life-saving gift he gave us did not even earn him his freedom.”Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of “The Warmth of Other Suns”, the New York Times bestseller that tells the story of the Great Migration, described as a watershed in American history. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson published in 2020. She was shortlisted for both the Pen-Galbraith Literary Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.Information contained in her biography indicate that “The Warmth of Other Suns”  was named to more than 30 Best of the Year lists, including The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the Year, Amazon’s 5 Best Books of the Year and Best of the Year lists in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, USA Today, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, The San Francisco Examiner, Newsday, Salon, The Christian Science Monitor, O Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Entertainment Weekly and over a dozen others.Significantly, the book was said to have made national news when President Obama chose it for summer reading in 2011. By comparing white supremacy in the U.S. to the caste system in India, her new book at … So that was the unusual interconnectedness that I never would have imagined.That idea of the one drop rule, that was viewed as too extreme to [the Nazis]. It is why Alabama was the last state in the union to throw out its law banning interracial marriage, which it did in 2000, 36 years after the Civil Rights Act ended segregation. It was stunning to hear that. Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, tells this story in her new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”. “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”, published by Random House and due for release this August 2020, is her second book.The author’s first book won her the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction, the Lynton History Prize from Harvard and Columbia universities and the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize. Congress has steadfastly refused even to debate reparations for the descendants of the people they enslaved, refusing for 30 years to pass Caste as a concept can be dizzying, but Wilkerson makes plain the deeply embedded infrastructure of American hierarchy. “Caste was the more accurate term.” And as a result of that, because they were, in his view, so beautiful, he decided to identify this skull as Caucasian clearly, and to name the group to which he belonged as Caucasians.In other words, this was the group that was the most beautiful and perfect of all groups of humanity. For the good-hearted among them, it must have been good news at best and a sobering one at worst. Joe Henson/Penguin Random House In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste … Wilkerson’s book is a work of synthesis. In essence, the author draws a parallel between the Nazi labor camp and the southern plantations of the United States. And so there was an effort to restrict who could come into the country if they were not of Western European descent.Tremendous back and forth, tremendous efforts on the part of eugenicists who then held sway in the popular imagination, tremendous effort to keep out people who we now would view as part of the dominant group. “[Caste] should be at the top of every American’s reading list.”—Chicago Tribune “Wilkerson’s book is a powerful, illuminating and heartfelt account of how hierarchy reproduces itself, as well as a call to action for the difficult work of undoing it.”—The Washington Post Oprah Winfrey has announced that "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson is not only her latest pick for Oprah's Book Club, but that it "might be the most important book… Photographers brought portable printing presses to sell photos of the hanged men as souvenirs. Isabelle Wilkerson in Caste has written a very provocative and thought-provoking book that makes a pretty convincing case that there is an unspoken caste system in America that influences people’s lives and behavior. 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