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This engaging, intellectual film explains writer Isabel Wilkinson's theory that caste, not race, is responsible for oppression worldwide.
“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame,” a young Langston Hughes proclaimed in an essay nearly 100 years ago.
Using Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ as a starting point, the filmmaker turns the making of a bestseller into an attempt to rethink the subject of race.
Ava DuVernay’s film depicts Isabel Wilkerson formulating the ideas of ‘Caste’ while enduring devastating loss.
Based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste, DuVernay's film draws a line between India's caste system, the hierarchies of Nazi Germany and the historic subjugation of Black people in the United States.