Isabel Wilkerson
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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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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)
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)
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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Joris LuyendijkAlso won Journalist of the Year
Erik LarsonAlso won Carl Sandburg Literary Award
Rebecca GoldsteinAlso won National Humanities Medal
Susan FaludiAlso won National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction
Joseph LelyveldAlso won The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Russell BakerAlso won George Polk AwardAbout this person
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