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Isabel Wilkerson
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Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and nonfiction author whose books examine the Great Migration and racial hierarchy in the United States.
Biography
Isabel Wilkerson, born in 1961, is an American journalist and author. She was editor-in-chief of Howard University's college newspaper and interned at the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post before becoming Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times. She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
Wilkerson wrote The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010), drawing on interviews with more than a thousand people. Her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020) describes racial hierarchy in the United States as a caste system. Both books became best-sellers. She has also taught at Emory University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, and Boston University.
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Books by Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns chronicles the migration of almost six million Black Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970. Drawing on more than a thousand interviews, data, and official records, it documents these journeys and their effects on American cities and the country.