Your Best Life. Type keyword s to search. Boston Globe Getty Images. Isabel Wilkerson is the author of Caste , the latest Oprah's Book Club Pick , which offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the caste system at work in the U. From her past work to her award-winning feature writing, here's what to know about Wilkerson—and what to read next. Related Stories. Photo: Joe Henson. Vintage Books amazon.
This content is imported from YouTube. Wilkerson then spent hundreds of hours interviewing her three protagonists. She would go with them to church, to the casino, and to the hospital just to be with them.
Wilkerson has long been interested in knowing a story deeply. She would get to know her subjects just by spending time with them in addition to interviews. Her work has garnered seven honorary degrees, most recently from Bates College and Southern Methodist University.
Her masterful combination of intimate human narratives with broader societal trends allows us to measure the epic migration of a people by its vast impact on our Nation and on each individual life. With the high-profile killings of unarmed African-Americans at the hands of police and civilians, protests are mounting and debates intensifying. These events have left many people asking just how far we have really come since the days of Jim Crow—and the need for dialogue has never been more acute.
In this timely lecture, Isabel Wilkerson addresses the persistence of racial injustice as a national challenge and what history can teach us as we work to resolve it.
In her bestselling and award-winning masterwork, The Warmth of Other Suns , Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the greatest untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of Black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities in search of a better life. To this day we have barely understood the full impact of this movement that was driven not by one single leader, but by six million Americans seeking political asylum in their own country.
This migration reshaped culture and politics, North and South, and set in motion the current racial challenges and disparities we now face as a country. Immigration has become a more urgent topic in the U. How do the Great Migration and immigration today resemble each other? Where do they intersect and how do they differ? What can we learn from the cautionary tale of six million Americans fleeing repression within the borders of their own country?
In this compelling lecture, Isabel Wilkerson outlines why The Great Migration is ultimately the story of millions of Americans who became immigrants in their own country, all in an effort to be recognized as citizens. Isabel Wilkerson was a huge hit at our conference. She is a captivating story teller, bringing to life the history of the Great Migration in a moving, thought-provoking manner. The connection she made with our audience was evidenced by the standing ovation at the end of her talk as well as by the dozens of people who lined up to buy her book and talk to her about their own migration stories.
The event was not only a success in the number of books we sold; it was also great to see so many people completely enraptured with what she had to say.
She received a standing ovation at the conclusion. Not only did she eloquently and powerfully share the story of the great migration and its effects that we see rippling through in our society today, she seemed to personally connect with audience members and trigger in them strong emotions. People felt blessed to be there, and inspired and empowered as they left. Her talk about and insight into the causes and effects of the great migration was very inspiring.
Her presentation was intellectually stimulating and extremely well received by our guests … Several said this was the best forum they have been at … She spent quality time with each person, making them feel special and listening to their individual stories.
All in all we are thrilled about last night and think we will have a hard time topping it next year. She was fantastic and we had a blast! Sold out crowd — bursting at the seams amazing energy in the air , hanging on her words she was so compelling — brought many to tears , eloquent, engaging, and gracious.
Nothing but superlatives. Wilkerson was terrific; she was great with the students and her lecture moved and connected with the lecture audience in a way that we have rarely seen. She talked seriously about serious matters in a way that was illuminating and thought provoking — she provided vocabulary that others will use as they continue the conversation within their own groups.
She was warm, gracious, and willing to be helpful and extend herself to others. It was one of the more racially mixed audiences as well, which was one of our goal. The dinner guests enjoyed the opportunity to talk with her — everyone associated with her appearances here felt privileged. Students, faculty, staff, and administrators all attended and were impressed not only by her extensive research but also by her kindness and humility. She reminded us all that the push for freedom continued long after slavery.
It was a tremendous joy to host Isabel Wilkerson. Our campus family was so happy to have met her and to hear her speak. Everyone was personally touched by her body of work in a unique and special way. In , while Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times , she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, winning the feature writing award for her coverage of the mid western floods and her profile of a year-old boy who was responsible for his four siblings.
Wilkerson has won a George S. She has also been the James M. After fifteen years of research and writing, she published, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration , which examines the three geographic routes that were commonly used by Blacks leaving the southern states between and the s, illustrated through the personal stories of people who took those routes. During her research for the book, Wilkerson interviewed more than 1, people who made the migration from the South to Northern and Western cities.
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