Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was included in Time's 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and in The New York Times's list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.
If you haven't read Caste yet, you absolutely must
*Vogue*
Powerful and timely... I cannot recommend it strongly enough
*Barack Obama*
Such is Wilkerson's gift as a writer that she leaves you looking at
the world differently
*Vogue*
Elegant and persuasive... Caste will spur readers to think and to
feel in equal measure
*New York Times Book Review*
Probably the most important piece of non-fiction published this
year
*i News*
A surprising and arresting wide-angle reframing... Her epilogue
feels like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions
through prophetic new language
*Washington Post*
An expansive interrogation of racism, institutionalised inequality
and injustice... This is an American reckoning and so it should
be... It is a painfully resonant book and could not have come at a
more urgent time
*Guardian*
Persuasive and unsettling... The case Wilkerson puts forward is
inspiring and hopeful... caste can be dismantled, setting everyone
free
*Observer*
Important and timely... If repudiation of past assumptions is the
first step towards healing, Wilkerson's book offers a powerful
frame for this. It is essential reading for anybody who feels
angry, guilty or threatened by the tangled issue of "race" in
America today
*Financial Times*
Magisterial... [Wilkerson's] reporting is nimble and her sentences
exquisite. But the real power of Caste lies tucked within the
stories she strings together like pearls... Caste is a luminous
read, bearing its own torch of righteous wrath in a diamond-hard
prose that will be admired and studied by future generations of
journalists
*Star Tribune*
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