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Isabel Wilkerson

출생: November 07, 1961 – Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author whose work examines race, migration, and social hierarchy in the United States. She wrote The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste; The Warmth of Other Suns won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Wilkerson became the first Black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

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Isabel Wilkerson came out of Washington, D.C., with a reporter’s discipline and a historian’s memory. The daughter of Great Migration parents—her mother from Rome, Georgia, her father from Virginia, a Tuskegee Airman—she grew up sensing that family stories could illuminate national history. At Howard University, where she studied journalism and led The Hilltop, she developed the close observation that carried her into reporting at the Detroit Free Press and then The New York Times. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isabel-Wilkerson))

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America is an old house
-Caste
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I think of caste as the bones and race as the skin
-Caste author Isabel Wilkerson on America's race and class hierarchy
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I am literally the daughter of a builder of bridges
-On Being: Isabel Wilkerson
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Of course, the greatest corrective of all would be ending the caste system itself
-American Life Is Still Defined by Caste
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you can't fix what you don't recognize and you can't heal from what you have not diagnosed
-Amanpour & Company: America's Unspoken Caste System
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There are many, many children and grandchildren of the Great Migration who did not hear this directly from their own families
-Painting the 'Epic Drama' of the Great Migration
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American music as we know it was one of the gifts of the Great Migration
-The Warmth of Other Suns

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"Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece"

David Levering Lewis

"Isabel Wilkerson’s study surpasses many books on institutional racism by reframing the problem as something more vast and more concrete than that"

Los Angeles Times

"A consummate storyteller, Isabel Wilkerson has written an important book that reminds us of a comradeship of interwoven histories"

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"Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people"

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"Isabel Wilkerson’s latest is an immersive, unflinching taxonomy of the unspoken social order underpinning all of American society"

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"Isabel Wilkerson tells this story in prose that is so beautiful, the only reason to pause your reading is to catch your breath"

Lawrence O’Donnell

"To read Isabel Wilkerson is to revel in the pleasure of reading"

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