Isabel Wilkerson on Caste, Community, and Injustice in America

On March 4, 2021, Nevada Humanities welcomed author and historian Isabel Wilkerson to a keynote talk about race, Black migration throughout the western United States. Copies of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents are available for purchase from our local Nevada independent bookstores: Sundance Books and Music in Reno and The Writer’s Block in Las Vegas.

This event was produced by Nevada Humanities, Core Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Nevada, Reno, The Humanities Center at Great Basin College, and by the Department of Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at UNLV.

This program is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is also a part of the “Democracy and the Informed Citizen” Initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program is also supported by the Nevada Center for the Book, produced by Nevada Humanities and made possible with support from Nevada State library, Archives and Public Records, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Recording of this event is not permitted. For more information on this speaker please visit prhspeakers.com.