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 ...

#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 coronavirus pandemic has upended everyday life on an international scale. Among other societal woes, the COVID-19 crisis has accentuated racial disparities in the United States as the disease ...

The beloved star will also be the first-ever guest editor for Apple News Oprah Winfrey revealed her latest book club pick, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, on Tuesday. And ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Story. A Hindu of Brahmin parentage, born and brought up in a small village near Calcutta, Mukerji, in Caste (the first section), is able to give a most interesting and obviously veracious account ...

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, ...

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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 ...