Join the PS! Book Club on May 16th at 7:00 pm, for a thoughtful discussion of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson, a masterful work by an award winning and renowned author.
In her most recent non-fiction book, Wilkerson presents the reader with a dark history of the scope of human violence. She looks at this history through the lens of caste systems as they exist in countries such as India, as they were manifested by the treatment of Jews and other minorities by the Nazis, and how they continue to exist in the United States. Wilkerson focuses on the mistreatment of African-Americans by government and the law, as well as in everyday life – from the violence of slavery, the terror of lynchings, to the daily discourtesy and often dehumanizing mistreatment still being encountered today.
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration, and her newest book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent. Ms. Wilkerson is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism while working as the Chicago Bureau Chief for the New York Times in 1994. In 2016 President Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal for “championing the stories of an unsung history.” She is also the recipient of several other awards and recognitions. Born in Washington, D.C. in 1961, she is a graduate of Howard University.