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Isabel Wilkerson with Lynn Nottage: Caste

“Caste is the bones, race is the skin. Race is what we can see, the physical traits that have been given arbitrary meaning and become shorthand for who a person is. Caste is the powerful infrastructure that holds each group in its place.”—Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson ​is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. They take as their starting point Wilkerson’s deeply researched and immersive book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. Drawing parallels between the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson outlines a revolutionary framework for understanding how caste plays out across civilizations, both historically and today. Beautifully written and wholly original, it’s an eye-opening story of people and history—and an examination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives in America today.











When: Tue., Nov. 10, 2020 at 10:00 am
Where: Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)
30 Lafayette Ave.
718-636-4100
Price: Free
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“Caste is the bones, race is the skin. Race is what we can see, the physical traits that have been given arbitrary meaning and become shorthand for who a person is. Caste is the powerful infrastructure that holds each group in its place.”—Isabel Wilkerson

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson ​is joined in conversation by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. They take as their starting point Wilkerson’s deeply researched and immersive book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. Drawing parallels between the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson outlines a revolutionary framework for understanding how caste plays out across civilizations, both historically and today. Beautifully written and wholly original, it’s an eye-opening story of people and history—and an examination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives in America today.

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