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The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
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The Epic Story of America's Great Migration: A Talk by Isabel Wilkerson
In 2010, Isabel Wilkerson spoke to the Institute about the fifteen years she spent reporting and writing her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Knopf, 2010). The book won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction,
In 1994, Wilkerson was the New York Times Chicago Bureau Chief when she won the Pulitzer Prize for her profile of a fourth-grader from Chicago's South Side, and for two stories on the Midwestern floods of 1993. She was the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Her 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents argues that racial stratification in the United States is best understood as a caste system, akin to those in India and in Nazi Germany
She has taught at Princeton, Emory and Boston universities.
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The Vault
Select lectures and conversations from the New York Institute for the Humanities' forty-year archive.
