Isabel Wilkerson – Snowbird of Paradise

February 22, 2022Snowbird of Paradise

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

After I had reviewed The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents was recommended to me. It is another brilliant and very readable analysis of the social and racial issues facing the United States. Those same issues are facing other countries, too, but the circumstances Wilkerson describes […]

January 20, 2022January 20, 2022Snowbird of Paradise

Optimistic Migrations and Unpredictable Outcomes

These two books about migrations within America and to America have given me a lot to think about. They go beneath the surface and find both heartwarming and unsettling consequences. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Between 1915 and 1970 six million Black Americans fled the South for cities in the North and […]