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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/9/2021
  

  What "Structural Racism" Means

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The writings of Oliver Cromwell Cox challenged the midcentury liberal conception of racism as a caste problem by linking it to capitalist exploitation and material inequality. He profoundly influenced Martin Luther King Jr.'s social critique and offers a way out of the dead end of "wokeness" and "identity politics."

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/15/2020
  

  Caste Does Not Explain Race

  by Charisse Burden-Stelly

  A reviewer takes Isabel Wilkerson's book "Caste" to task for failure to examine the connections between racism and economic exploitation. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/7/2020
  

  Isabel Wilkerson’s World-Historical Theory of Race and Caste

  Wilkerson's book contends that what we know as racism must be understood as a system of social domination, not as a matter of group conflict or prejudice.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/31/2020
  

  Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ Is an ‘Instant American Classic’ About Our Abiding Sin

  “Caste” lands so firmly because the historian, the sociologist and the reporter are not at war with the essayist and the critic inside her.