Thursday, March 28, 2024

Oprah Winfrey’s Book Club Examines Race and Hierarchy with Next Pick ‘Caste’ (Watch)

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Oprah Winfrey selects Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents” for her book club

*Oprah Winfrey has announced that her August 2020 book club selection will be Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of race and hierarchy in the U.S., “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”

The 59-year-old author and journalist won the National Book Critics Circle award in 2011 for her previous book, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” about the Black migration from the South in the early 20th century. In “Caste,” she examines American history and the treatment of Blacks and finds what she calls an enduring, unseen and unmentioned caste system — not unlike those in India or Nazi Germany — that has yet to be fully confronted.

“You cannot solve a problem unless you identify it and define it,” Wilkerson told The Associated Press, adding that Winfrey’s endorsement means “many more people who have not learned about this will have the chance to read about something that deeply affects us all.”

Winfrey’s book club pick on Tuesday continues her commitment to address racial inequality following her work with Lionsgate on a multimedia adaptation of The New York Times’ “1619 Project,” the current issue of O: The Oprah Magazine putting Breonna Taylor on the cover and interviewing Stacey Abrams and Ava DuVernay among others during a two-night special on her OWN network about how to address racism. Winfrey said she would’ve also marched in the streets alongside Black Lives Matter protesters if not for COVID-19.

Watch Oprah’s book club announcement below, or here.

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