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No Mere Slogans: On Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
Yogita Goyal reviews Isabel Wilkerson’s new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”
Yogita Goyal
Yogita Goyal is a professor of African American studies and English at UCLA and the author of Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature (2010) and Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery (2019). She has published widely on African diasporic, postcolonial, and US literature, and is writing a book on anti-colonial thought and its current revival.
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