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Origin is a 2023 biographical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay, based on the life of Isabel Wilkerson, who wrote Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The film explores the caste systems in Germany, India, and the United States through Wilkerson's personal and historical research.
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, a book that compares racism in the U.S. to caste systems in India and Nazi Germany. The book won several awards and was adapted into a film by Ava DuVernay.
In “Origin,” Ava DuVernay weaves a centuries- and continents-spanning narrative feature around the ideas of Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson, who rejects the word “racism.”
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste. She was the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism and has taught at several universities. She has been married twice and lost her second husband in 2015.
Ava DuVernay's new film, 'Origin,' is based on Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.' ... DuVernay discussed how turning Caste into a movie allowed her to tap into ...
Actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is front and center in Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” a film interpretation of Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 nonfiction bestseller and Oprah's Book ...
The book in question is “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” in which Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson offers an overriding theory about power and hierarchy and systemic ...
Learn about the history, legal position and studies of caste discrimination in the US, a form of social hierarchy based on birth. Find out how caste affects South Asian immigrants in various fields and how some states and cities are banning it.