race and culture

Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Reveals the Other Kind of American Exceptionalism

Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Reveals the Other Kind of American Exceptionalism

By comparing the American race-based class system to that of India and Nazi Germany, Isabel Wilkerson makes us see a familiar evil in a different light with her latest work, Caste.

‘High Cotton’ Is Culturally Astute and Progressive

‘High Cotton’ Is Culturally Astute and Progressive

Kristie Robin Johnson's collection of essays in High Cotton dismantle linear thinking with shrewdness and empathy.

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