Wilkerson’s visit had been prompted by a book she was writing that used the Indian caste system to illuminate America’s racial hierarchy. It was her first trip to India, but one aspect of what ...

In "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents" (Random House), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson digs beneath historic, systemic racism to examine social hierarchies that transcend ...

As another South Asian reviewer, Anupama Rao, noted in the Los Angeles Review of Books, “I wonder whether Wilkerson has not politicized race at the cost of essentializing caste.” Caste is more complex ...

The book explores the ways the United States has an unspoken caste system, mirroring in haunting ways the caste systems of India and Nazi Germany. Wilkerson did an extensive amount of research to ...

SYFY has released a new trailer for their forthcoming comic book adaptation Deadly Class, based on the Image Comics series from Rick Remender and Wes Craig. The series centers on King’s Dominion ...

The self-published book, "Free Birds," takes place in India in the 1750s, where the caste system divides people into social categories. It follows a young girl named Navya who is born into an ...

Wilkerson’s new book makes unsettling comparisons between India’s treatment of its untouchables, Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews and America’s treatment of African-Americans.

Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of racism in the United States, “Caste,” and an acclaimed biography of Malcolm X are among this year’s nominees for awards presented by the J.

Want high school text withdrawn or certain portions of it revoked Kuala Lumpur: A high school textbook that highlights multiethnic Malaysia's racial harmony has riled the main ethnic Indian party ...

Muzaffar Assadi, professor of political science in the University of Mysore, has brought out a new book on caste among Muslims, a relatively unexplored area. In the book Alpasankyakaru Mattu Jati ...