![]() Wilkerson notes that the concept of caste has been around for thousands of years: " predates the idea of race, which is. ![]() "Caste focuses in on the infrastructure of our divisions and the rankings, whereas race is the metric that's used to determine one's place in that," she says. Wilkerson describes caste an artificial hierarchy that helps determine standing and respect, assumptions of beauty and competence, and even who gets benefit of the doubt and access to resources. Instead, she prefers to refer to America as having a "caste" system. ![]() Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson says racism is an insufficient term for the systemic oppression of Black people in America. William Lovelace/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Above, a sign in Jackson, Miss., in May 1961. ![]() In her new book, Caste, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson examines the laws and practices that created what she describes as a bipolar, Black and white caste system in the United States. ![]()
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