Isabel Wilkerson
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Sep 17, 2026
John GreenHOST
complicated caste system, which has been used throughout South Asia to assign different levels of privilege based on inherited social status, even among non-Hindus.
John GreenHOST
Scholar Isabel Wilkerson has noted that caste functions similarly to race in the US, where the amount of respect and resources and social standing a person has is determined, at least partially, by their race.
John GreenHOST
There are actually two forms of caste.
John GreenHOST
One is varna, which refers to one of the four categories of people named in the Rig Veda.
Vince Everett EllisonHOST
Yeah, the Nazis looked at the Democratic Party down South and they loved what they were doing with race law.
Vince Everett EllisonHOST
In a Pulitzer Prize winning book, this journalist by the name of Isabel Wilkerson, in an interview with Democracy Now!, she looked at the ways that Germany borrowed from the Democratic Party, Jim Crow laws.
Vince Everett EllisonHOST
She said, the Nazis needed no one to teach them how to hate.
Vince Everett EllisonHOST
She said, but what they did was they sent researchers to the United States of America to study Jim Crow laws.
Martin Luther McCoyGUEST
So, you know, the first time I heard that, my mind went immediately to Isabel Wilkerson,
Tavis SmileyHOST
the warmth of other sons.
Tavis SmileyHOST
They called him Cisco at Morehouse.
Alec BaldwinHOST
Historian, author, and professor Daniel Imrie-Carr.
Alec BaldwinHOST
If you enjoy conversations with writers who change the way we see American history, check out my episode with journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson and William Darity.
Isabel WilkersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We're not on the same page about what happened in our country, and that is what I'm saying why it's so important a- as we try to understand how we got to where we are now, is to understand what happened.
Isabel WilkersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, you can't fix what you can't see, and you can't repair what you don't know.
Isabel WilkersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, and that's why I think it's important for us to get on the same page about what happened.
Isabel WilkersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You can't make progress unless you know what's happened to get us where we are.
Alec BaldwinHOST
To hear more of my conversation with Isabel Wilkerson and William Darity, go to heresthething.org. After the break, Imrie-Carr shares what he really thinks about Trump's desire to annex Canada.
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Eating well shouldn't be complicated, but somehow it turns into recipes, prep, cleanup, and half your Sunday gone.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
We've each come with some picks to help listeners understand more about American life, history, politics.
Rebecca SchinskyHOST
Um, Sharon, since you were talking about people who had, you know, have been marginalized, who hadn't had the opportunity to fully participate in history or have their stories told, um, and, and since we've talked about this book on Zero to Well Read, I'd like to ask you to start with The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
Mm.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
Mm.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
First of all, Isabel Wilkerson is truly one of the most amazing humans.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
I have nothing but wonderful things to say about her.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
So I love her as a person, and I love her as a writer.
Sharon McMahonGUEST
it was one of those things where I, like, savored the last few chapters.
Martha BantaGUEST
It's very inspiring.
Martha BantaGUEST
It is-- takes its inspiration from the Isabel Wilkerson book, uh, Warmth, uh, The Warmth of Other Suns.
Martha BantaGUEST
Uh, that was written as a history of the Great Migration, uh, which of course was the, uh, movement of Black families from the South to the North in the '50s through the '70s.
Jim CunninghamHOST
He's on the rise.
ErinHOST
Caste is the bones, race is the skin.
ErinHOST
That's from Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste.
ErinHOST
Cheers, I guess? [laughs]
LizHOST
I-
Ashutosh GargHOST
Is there a book or a podcast that fundamentally changed the way you think?
Anu SeamGUEST
I think the book I would talk about here is Cast, Cast by Isabel Wilkerson.
Anu SeamGUEST
And it just opened my eyes.
Anu SeamGUEST
It just opened my eyes in a way to think about dominant society and people who are dominant and a hierarchical structure, which I had never thought about before.
Aubrey CarterHOST
Mm.
Rebecca SchinskyGUEST
Uh, and so specifically for US history, the most accessible, and just wonderfully readable one that I've come across, is The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson-
Aubrey CarterHOST
Oh
Rebecca SchinskyGUEST
... which is about the Great Migration, where generations of Black Americans, after slavery, traveled north and west to set up new lives.
John RochaHOST
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Steve MorrisHOST
it's like 16 candles is very much a similar movie for me as revenge of the nerds which is for telling the story of a young teenage girl from her perspective this is a a groundbreakingly feminist movie totally but the long and it's so long duck dong is like in uh revenge of the nerds is a very positive character he is a total stereotype it's the gong yes gong is like the yeah and then of course that movie like this one has essentially a rape that the person ends up liking you know that's a very uncomfortable thing like it's funny not to get all uh highbrow but what you were saying about othering rings so true to me and and the book um It's cast by Isabel Wilkerson, which is what was made into Origins, the Ava DuVernay film.
Steve MorrisHOST
Okay.
Steve MorrisHOST
And it is...
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