Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Isabel Wilkerson will be in conversation with Rachel L. Swarns about her groundbreaking bestseller "Caste." Audience Q&A to follow.
Join us for another top author conversation, followed by a virtual audience Q&A period. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson will be in conversation about her groundbreaking #1 bestseller, "Caste," with NYU journalism professor Rachel L. Swarns ("American Tapestry").
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Isabel Wilkerson was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize as New York Times bureau chief in Chicago. Her first book, "The Warmth of Other Suns," won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lynton History Prize from Harvard and Columbia universities, and the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize. Isabel has become a leading figure in narrative nonfiction, an interpreter of the human condition, and an impassioned voice for demonstrating how history can help us understand ourselves, our country, and our current era of upheaval. Through her writing, Isabel brings the invisible and the marginalized into the light and into our hearts. Through her lectures, she explores with authority the need to reconcile America’s karmic inheritance and the origins of both our divisions and our shared commonality.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club Choice, and a groundbreaking re-examination of race, class and relations of dominance across cultures, "Caste" has been hailed as "an instant American classic about our abiding national sin…how brutal misperceptions about race have disfigured the American experiment”—The New York Times.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Rachel L. Swarns is an associate professor at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute who writes about race and race relations as a contributing writer for The New York Times. She is the author of “American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama,’’ and a co-author of “Unseen: Unpublished Black History from The New York Times Photo Archives." Her articles for the Times about Georgetown University’s roots in slavery touched off a national conversation about American universities and their ties to this painful period of history.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Open Book/Open Mind | Books, Film & Theater | Book Discussion |
Mon, Apr 22 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Tue, Apr 23 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
Wed, Apr 24 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
Thu, Apr 25 | 10:00AM to 8:00PM |
Fri, Apr 26 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sat, Apr 27 | 10:00AM to 6:00PM |
Sun, Apr 28 | 1:00PM to 6:00PM |
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