Isabel Wilkerson
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English
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""As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not." In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched...
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
3) Caste
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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In this young adult adaptation of the Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestselling nonfiction work, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class. Revealing and timely, this work will speak to young people who are engaged more than ever with the world around them, or to anyone who believes in a more just existence for all.
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"This work is based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, copyright © 2020. Originally published in the United States in hardcover by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC , New York, in 2020"--
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ĖKSMO
Pub. Date
2022.
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Russian
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Amerika, Indii︠a︡ i Tretiĭ Reĭkh - chto obshchego mezhdu ėtimi stranami? V kazhdoĭ iz nikh zarodilasʹ svoi︠a︡ unikalʹnai︠a︡ kastovai︠a︡ sistema, razdelivshai︠a︡ li︠u︡deĭ na nizshie i vysshie sorta i podgotovivshai︠a︡ pochvu dli︠a︡ sovremennykh shovinisticheskikh dvizheniĭ po vsemu miru. V svoeĭ knige laureat Pulitt︠s︡erovskoĭ premii, zhurnalistka Izabelʹ Uilkerson rassmatrivaet sposoby ugnetenii︠a︡...
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Wen hua fa zhan chu ban she
Pub. Date
2019.
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中文
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Ben shu zuo zhe Yishabeier Weimikesen cai fang le shu qian ren, tong shi cha xun da liang dang an zi liao, xie chu le er shi shi ji zui bei di gu de li shi -- 1915 nian dao 1970 nian, liu bai wan fei zhou yi Meiguo ren cong Meiguo nan fang qian xi dao qi ta di fang de gu shi. zhe ci da qian xi dui fei zhou yi mei guo ren he Meiguo de yi yi bu ya yu nan bei zhan zheng zhong lin ken jie fang hei nu, zhe ci da qian xi zhong xin su zao le Meiguo de mian...
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The University of Chicago Press
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English
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"Deep South was originally published in 1941, documenting in startling detail the nuances, character, and lived realities of racism in a southern town. Allison Davis and his co-authors, Burleigh and Mary Gardner, all went undercover, not revealing their scholarly project or even their association with one another. Their analysis notably revealed the importance of caste and class to both Black and White worldviews, and it anatomized how those are constructed,...
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"The first African American photographer to be hired full time by Life magazine, Gordon Parks was often sent on assignments involving social issues that his white colleagues were not asked to cover. In 1950 he returned on one such assignment to his hometown of Fort Scott in southeastern Kansas: he was to provide photographs for a piece on segregated schools and their impact on black children in the years prior to Brown v. Board of Education. Parks...
