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'Caste' Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans

Isabel Wilkerson's second book is a masterwork of writing — a profound achievement of scholarship and research that stands, also, as a triumph of both visceral storytelling and cogent analysis.

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