Join her on this journey by following @oprahsbookclub across social, including the brand new Oprah’s Book Club Facebook group. She’s immersed herself in the stories of the Great Migration, the movement of six million African Americans to northern U.S. cities in the 20th century. A balanced response to this controversial book. And why is that? It’s not something that we wanted. And that gives you a sense of how long all of these people were miscast into an artificial hierarchy as to what they were permitted to do, or risk death if they did not do that. I really believe that the solutions lie in the South. Since it is linked to occupation, it necessarily is linked to the economy and to class. This content is imported from {embed-name}. “From the open door in the vestibule, I see her. And the solutions lie in the South, I believe. When it comes to the family background, it so happens that my mother’s father was a baptist minister, and my father grew up in Virginia also in a baptist church. Lots of laws were passed, actually, in the 1860s, and then they had to be revisited in the 1960s. I interviewed her as part of the inaugural Faith in Literature Festival at the University of North Carolina Asheville in partnership with public radio station WCQS and the Wake Forest School of Divinity. Tippett: But I feel like the success of this book and books like Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Ta-Nehisi Coates…. As D. D. Kosambi once said “Almost every statement of a general nature made by anyone about Indian castes may be contradicted”. Wilkerson: Well, I think that a lot of this actually is not — it’s out there, but it’s not commonly known. Today, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Tippett: Something else, something that was disturbing about the dynamic is that, on the one hand, African Americans were being lured by the North as cheap labor. It was the term to use. Wilkerson: Yeah, if they were spirited and expressive, there was a need to reign that in. But I think the foundation of all of those disciplines comes down to the history. And then, “We may be clueless and awkward around the subject of race, but we know what the Gospel demands. My hope is that we can see that these false walls of division were erected generations ago, centuries ago, and that none of us had anything to do with the building these barriers between us. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett and this is On Being. Ultimately, Wilkerson offers very little remedy for the problems that she describes ending with an appeal to “radical empathy” and a description of a trivial event that she and her white friend had by not being served on time at an up-scale restaurant. And that’s what our country is like. And so that’s one of the reasons why people might not have known about these things. I think that because it happened within the borders of our own country, we don’t think about it as — first of all, it was a kind of immigration. For her, as for the British, India has no history to speak of or worth studying. Then, as now, it was promoted by the American ruling elite with the Carnegie corporation funding a study by the Swedish sociologist Gunner Myrdal all together constituting the caste school of sociology of race relations. Because what happened with the trains when they reached border space, and the trains had to —  they were going into free territory of Illinois if they’re crossing over from the neighboring state, from Kentucky depending on what part of Illinois they’re in. Is it making it acceptable on some level? And the work is never done. Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, 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 … It is civilizationally distinct and permits no easy comparison with modern European society. It was just matter of fact. Change ), Ho Chi Minh and his relevance today: the legacy of Black-Vietnamese friendship and the war, A Light that Never Was: The failings of Western liberal democracy. And what a delight it’s been. Her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, comes … Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson points this out as she reflects on her epic work of narrative nonfiction. Our lovely theme music is provided and composed by Zoë Keating. And this book is such a — it embodies this paradox that writers know, that storytellers know, that radio actually knows, that the more particular you can get with your story, the more universally it can be received, that others can join their life and their imagination with what you have to share. This is sounding very much like 2006 and 2007 for us now. A prolific writer on sociology, history, economics, and politics, W.E.B. There was actually a tremendous amount of fear that a lot of parents in the South had for their children if they were extroverted and opinionated. In doing so, she takes the position of the colonizing British. We get an extraordinary comparison of the history of the two countries. And I think that as my cumulative conversation has progressed, I have a much more expansive imagination about what that is, the spiritual background of one’s childhood. We’re seeing the manifestation of that, Seattle or Oakland or Los Angeles. These were refugee camps created in our American cities. Advertised on a six-storied double sided bill-board in the middle of Manhattan, called an “instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far” in a New York Times Review the book has received explicit endorsement from the ruling class in the United States of America. And one fact about this whole idea of where we are right now just sort of cosmically, I think, in terms of this — let me put it this way: no adult alive today will live to see a time when the time of enslavement was equal to the time of freedom. And they have to actually uncouple the trains because the new place doesn’t have segregation, but the old place had the segregation. That’s shocking to me. It was very early on. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. And I wonder how, having traced this history, being able to see the origins of some of these dynamics that we’re facing now, how you have understood what is happening now in ways that perhaps you wouldn’t have if you hadn’t done this research and delved into this story. He doesn’t want to know just your history, he wants to know your mother’s history. How do you do that? And one of the things I hear most often when I go out talking about this book — or people write to me constantly, and it’s the same phrase over and over again, “I had no idea.” I hear it over and over again from people who actually were alive at the time that some of these things were going on. Because for centuries, for 246 years of enslavement — and I have to remind people — 12 generations of enslavement, 12 generations of enslavement. How many “greats” do you add to “grandparent” to get that back to 1619 until 1863? So you trace these stories of these individuals, these particular stories of this universal drama, and I wonder — and you really — as you said, you channel these people in your brain.

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