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Isabel Wilkerson

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American journalist

United StatesJournalistsBorn 1961 · age 65
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Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

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Isabel Wilkerson
said · 2010
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My parents absolutely did not think of themselves as part of the Great Migration. They knew they were part of a great wave.

On her parents experience during the Great Migration in “Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North” in NPR (2010 Sep 10)

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Isabel Wilkerson
said · 2016
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Some of these things seem as if it’s a lot of hard work, and it is.

On how she hopes The Warmth of Other Suns led to a deeper understanding in “Isabel Wilkerson” in Humanities (Fall 2016)

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Isabel Wilkerson
said · 2022
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On the one hand, Wilkerson is very concerned about dehumanizing any group because it is then easy to harm individuals within that group solely because of them belonging to it.

Malhotra, R. & Viswanathan V. (2022). Snakes in the Ganga : Breaking India 2.0.

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Awards 9

2021Carl Sandburg Literary Award
2015National Humanities Medal
2011Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2011The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
2010National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
1998Guggenheim Fellowship
1994Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
1994Journalist of the Year
1993George Polk Award

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About this person

Country
United States
Category
Journalists
Type
Journalist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1961 · age 65
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13 languages

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