FREE FOR ALL: So what is your caste?

Looking back at Isabel Wilkerson’s groundbreaking book by that name and what it has to teach us in the struggle against fascism, as a new film adaptation comes to screens

It’s not everyday a work of narrative nonfiction gets a film adaptation, but Isabel Wilkerson is no ordinary journalist, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents no ordinary book. Wilkerson’s comparative inquiry, connecting the experience of structural racism in the U.S., Nazi Germany, and India, has the historical scope and emotional impact of a major…