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Isabel Wilkerson’s New Book Reveals America’s Caste System
Isabel Wilkerson’s New Book Reveals America’s Caste System
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Sep 22, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson says that the inconvenient truth of race and racism has exploded the myth that there are no castes in America since Day 1. And she describes the artificial hierarchy that determines everything from respect to resources, who gets the benefit of the doubt and who is considered beautiful in her new book “Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents”.
Released:
Sep 22, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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