Oprah Winfrey continues her dialogue on race and is going in-depth with her latest Oprah's Book Club selection, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," by Isabel Wilkerson. In addition to her ...

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 ...

#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 ...

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 ...

Television mogul Oprah Winfrey described the United States as having a “caste system” that was the “template for Nazi Germany.” “How did you decide to focus the book on three caste systems: India, ...

The tendency in this moment, as in many others, is to speak of India as a unitary society. Of course it is not, and the largest share of those writing, posting, and reading about Black Lives Matter ...

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 ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And turning now to the United States, where our next guest says the death of Tyre Nichols is the latest tragedy to shine a light on the nation’s ...

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Racism, both past and present, remains at the forefront of the American national conversation. Now, a new book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines how hierarchy and class are substantially ...

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 ...