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" she has ...

Apr. 24—One of the best of many excellent new books about race in America is Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." Her main thesis is that racism in America is part of a larger ...

In Chris Rock's 2008 comedy special, "Kill the Messenger," he discusses the limited diversity in his affluent neighborhood in Alpine, N.J. At the time, the high-profile actor and comedian lived near a ...

In "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" (Random House), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend ...

In March 2008, Barack Obama’s presidential campaign nearly imploded when reporters revealed that his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., regularly blasted the United States as irredeemably racist. “[The ...

Researching her new book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” so disturbed Isabel Wilkerson that its acknowledgments thank the music that helped her get through it. The follow-up to Wilkerson’s ...

Forest Whitaker is physically conspicuous and, most people would say, famous. In “Caste,” Isabel Wilkerson narrates how the Oscar-winning actor, “a distinguished, middle-aged, African-American man,” ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X and fiction by Martin Amis and the late Randall Kenan are among this year’s finalists for National Book Critics ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste,” her acclaimed study of racism in the United States, is among 10 nominees on the National Book Award longlist for nonfiction. The poetry list features works ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - "An instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far."--Dwight Garner, The New York ...