LAist

It's More Than Racism: Isabel Wilkerson Explains America's 'Caste' System

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel ...
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Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Sets Hauntingly Familiar Scene in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ Trailer

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The Inlander

In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, Isabel Wilkerson explores what really divides humanity

Caste is an important book for this time, for any time. But it may wind up being to the literary world as oatmeal is to the dietary world — important but not widely consumed. In Caste Wilkerson builds ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Isabel Wilkerson argues that 'Caste' not racism caused The Great Migration

As part of Black History Month, Book of the Day brings you an interview with author Isabel Wilkerson. She followed her book about The Great... Isabel Wilkerson argues that 'Caste' not racism caused ...
Metro Times

In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay turns Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of racism, ‘Caste,’ into a gripping feature film

Watching Origin, the mind-stirring new film from writer-director Ava DuVernay, I found myself leaning forward, the way you do when a friend you haven’t seen in a long time relates an intensely ...
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Caste the origins of our discontents Isabel Wilkerson

The man in the crowd -- Part one. Toxins in the permafrost and heat rising all around. The afterlife of pathogens -- An old house and an infrared light -- An American untouchable -- Part two. The ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Origin’ Review: Ava DuVernay and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Turn Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Into a Tender Love Story

With an ensemble also including Jon Bernthal and Niecy Nash-Betts, the 'Selma' director tackles the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's sweeping theory of American racism. By Lovia ...
WFAE

With 'Origin,' Ava DuVernay illuminates America's racial caste system

Ava DuVernay describes her new movie "Origin," which is based on Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste," as "a film about a woman in pursuit of an idea." "It took me a really long time to wrap my mind around ...
Today

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor plays Isabel Wilkerson in ‘Origin.’ Why she’s ‘afraid’ of the author’s reaction

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 Club pick ...
WUNC

With 'Origin,' Ava DuVernay illuminates America's racial caste system

When filmmaker Ava DuVernay first read Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, she was so stunned, she reread it twice. The bestselling book draws a line between India's ...
Rolling Stone

Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Sets Hauntingly Familiar Scene in Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ Trailer

Trauma is inescapable in the first trailer for Origin, Ava DuVernay‘s forthcoming film chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she sits in generation-spanning grief to write ...