Isabel Wilkerson

Wilkerson ran the Chicago bureau of the New York Times, and was the first Black woman awarded a Pulitzer for journalism. The Warmth of Other Suns took fifteen years and more than twelve hundred interviews, and follows three people out of the Jim Crow South to build the history of the Great Migration from the inside of it. Caste argues that American racism works more like a caste system than a colour line, and draws direct comparisons with India and with Germany in the 1930s, which historians have both praised and contested at length.