Suraj Yengde’s Caste is an unflinching examination of how hierarchy adapts, travels, and survives in modern life ...

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 ...

This cover image released by Random House shows "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" by Isabel Wilkerson. Oprah Winfrey has chosen Wilkerson’s “Caste” as her new book club selection. The book looks ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oprah Winfrey revealed her latest book club pick, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, on Tuesday. And this ...

The power of an analogy is twofold: it can make something relatable, or it can completely turn upside down all of our preconceived notions. Isabel Wilkerson seeks to do the latter in her most recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shailaja Paik was born into India’s Dalit community — one of the millions who belong to historically marginalized and oppressed castes due to their professions. They’re so scorned that they were for ...

#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 ...