Isabel Wilkerson

Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, is the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, from which this essay is adapted; out in paperback on Feb. 14.

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From Jan. 6 to Tyre Nichols, American Life Is Still Defined by Caste

Recent events are a reminder that the caste system still determines American life—but we can overcome it.

By Isabel Wilkerson
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