Isabel Wilkerson

Author

Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author who won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1994, becoming the first Black woman to do so. She was the Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times. Caste examines the unspoken caste system that she argues shapes American life — drawing parallels between the treatment of Black... Americans, India's caste system, and Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews. The book was a number one New York Times bestseller and an Oprah's Book Club selection. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers a groundbreaking, paradigm-shifting examination of inequality in America — a book that reframes how we understand race and power. Read more Show less