CD Audiobook
Caste : the origins of our discontents / Isabel Wilkerson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0593396693
- ISBN: 9780593396698
- ISBN: 9780593396698
- ISBN: 0593396693
- Physical Description: 12 audio discs (approximately 14 hr., 27 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, [2020]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from web page. Compact discs. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Robin Miles. |
| Summary, etc.: | The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how people's lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Caste > United States. Social stratification > United States. Ethnicity > United States. Power (Social sciences) > United States. United States > Race relations. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
Available copies
- 20 of 24 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 24 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | BCD 305.5122 Wil (Text) | 33160143219007 | Adult Book on CD | Checked out | 05/04/2024 |
| Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | ACD 305.5 WIL (Text) | 33260000536426 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
| Brookfield Library | CD 305.5122/WILKERSON (Text) | 34029146682546 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
| C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | CDBK 305.5122 WIL (Text) | 34014147278338 | Adult Book on CD | Checked out | 04/15/2024 |
| Chester Public Library | BCD 305.5122 WIL (Text) | 33210000518619 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
| Douglas Library of Hebron | AUDID CD 305.512 WIL (Text) | 33400147715372 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
| Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | AB 305.5122 WILKERSON (Text) | 34026147340652 | Adult Nonfiction Audio Book | Available | - |
| Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven | CD 305.512 WIL (Text) | 31953145376243 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
| Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | 305.5 Wilkerson (Text) | 33660148215934 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
| Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | BCD 305.5 WIL (Text) | 33430147633234 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Author Notes
Caste (Oprah's Book Club) : The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson was born in Washington, D.C. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Howard University. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer Prize and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. She also won the George Polk Award, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and she was named Journalist of the Year by the National Association of Black Journalists. Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, won the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the 2011 Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction, the 2011 Hillman Book Prize, the 2011 Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize, the Independent Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the NAACP Image Award for best literary debut. She has been a journalism professor at Princeton University and Emory University. She is currently Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction at Boston University. (Bowker Author Biography)
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