Caste

If you haven’t read Caste yet, you absolutely must – Edward Enninful * Vogue *Powerful and timely… I cannot recommend it strongly enough – Barack ObamaSuch is Wilkerson’s gift as a writer that she leaves you looking at the world differently – Afua Hirsch * Vogue *Elegant and persuasive… Caste will spur readers to think and to feel in equal measure – Kwame Anthony Appiah * New York Times Book Review *Probably the most important piece of non-fiction published this year – Sarah Hughes * i News *A surprising and arresting wide-angle reframing… Her epilogue feels like a prayer for a country in pain, offering new directions through prophetic new language – Bilal Qureshi * Washington Post *An expansive interrogation of racism, institutionalised inequality and injustice… This is an American reckoning and so it should be… It is a painfully resonant book and could not have come at a more urgent time – Fatima Bhutto * Guardian *Persuasive and unsettling… The case Wilkerson puts forward is inspiring and hopeful… caste can be dismantled, setting everyone free – Ashish Ghadiali * Observer *Important and timely… If repudiation of past assumptions is the first step towards healing, Wilkerson’s book offers a powerful frame for this. It is essential reading for anybody who feels angry, guilty or threatened by the tangled issue of “race” in America today – Gillian Tett * Financial Times *Magisterial… [Wilkerson’s] reporting is nimble and her sentences exquisite. But the real power of Caste lies tucked within the stories she strings together like pearls… Caste is a luminous read, bearing its own torch of righteous wrath in a diamond-hard prose that will be admired and studied by future generations of journalists – Hamilton Cain * Star Tribune *

Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Warmth of Other Suns. Her debut work won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was included in Time’s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s and in The New York Times’s list of the Best Nonfiction of All Time. She has taught at Princeton, Emory, and Boston Universities and has lectured at more than two hundred other colleges and universities across the United States and in Europe and Asia.