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Isabel Wilkerson

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Isabel Wilkerson

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1961 （Washington, D.C.）
国籍
United States
言語
English
居住地歴
Washington, D.C. → Chicago → New York → Atlanta

経歴

職業
Journalist, Author, Professor
活動期間
1984年〜
所属
Emory University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, Boston University (College of Communication), Columbia University (board member, National Arts in Journalism Program)
影響を受けた人物
James Baldwin, Ida B. Wells
影響を与えた人物
Contemporary nonfiction writers and scholars of race

学歴

Howard University
School of Arts / Journalism
学位: BA
期間: 1979–1983
卒業年: 1983
国: United States
Served as editor-in-chief of the college newspaper and interned at multiple major publications during studies.

受賞歴

George S. Polk Award
1993
部門: Regional Reporting
主催: George S. Polk Award organization
結果: winner
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing
1994
対象作品: Coverage of the 1993 Midwestern floods and a profile of a 10-year-old boy
部門: Feature Writing
主催: Pulitzer Prize Board
結果: winner
Guggenheim Fellowship
1998
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: winner
National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)
2010
対象作品: The Warmth of Other Suns
部門: Nonfiction
主催: National Book Critics Circle
結果: winner
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
2011
対象作品: The Warmth of Other Suns
主催: Anisfield-Wolf Foundation
結果: winner
National Humanities Medal
2016
主催: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
結果: winner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Current Interest)
2020
対象作品: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
部門: Current Interest
主催: Los Angeles Times
結果: winner

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

2010年 Nonfiction / Oral history, History 640ページ

A major narrative history documenting the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West during the 20th century, based on interviews with over a thousand people and focusing on three major migration routes.

Migration (Great Migration)Race and opportunityPersonal narratives and collective memory

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

2020年 Nonfiction / Social history, Sociology 496ページ

Analyzes racial stratification in the United States through the framework of a caste system, comparing it to caste structures in India and Nazi Germany and exploring its historical roots and contemporary effects.

Hierarchy and casteStructural racismHistorical comparison
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Origin / Ava DuVernay (2023)

全著作

  • The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010)
  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020)

翻案

  • Origin (2023 biographical drama film)

作風・主題

文体
Narrative nonfictionOral-history-based reportingInvestigative and historical narration
頻出モチーフ
Migration and changeInstitutional and structural inequalityMaking history visible through personal testimony

評価・遺産

Isabel Wilkerson has significantly influenced public understanding of the Great Migration and the conceptual analysis of racial hierarchy in America. Her fusion of narrative nonfiction and investigative reporting has earned critical acclaim, numerous awards, and honorary degrees.

関連学会

  • National Association of Black Journalists

資料所蔵先

  • Library of Congress (holds related materials)

大衆文化への影響

  • Brought to wider popular attention by the biographical film 'Origin' (2023)

引用

  • As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power — which groups have it and which do not.
    出典: The New York Times Magazine ('America's Enduring Caste System', 2020) (2020年)

豆知識

  • Her father, Alexander Wilkerson, was one of the Tuskegee Airmen.
  • Interviewed more than 1,000 people for The Warmth of Other Suns.
  • Won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing; among the first African-American women to win a Pulitzer in journalism.