#Isabel Wilkerson

[papa-evershed]

Most relationships end. Friendships, romances, divorces. I mean…separations, people grow apart. They break. But we didn't break. […] We did not break. We were together until the end. He should be here, Miss. He should be here.

ORIGIN 2023

#origin #origin spoilers #origin 2023 #aunjanue ellis-taylor #jon bernthal #brett hamilton #isabel wilkerson #i finally watched this and they did an incredible job conveying her sense of loss

[michonnes]

Everywhere. All over the place. There's connective tissue. All of this, all of it... is linked.

#origin #ava duvernay #aunjanue ellis #jon bernthal #isabel wilkerson #caste: the origins of our discontents #well it's gonna be a sad movie so i hope the girls are ready #it's me: i'm 'the girls' #the cry-smile got me feeling seen #mygifs

[iseetheworldinmetaphor]

The levels in this image. Just saw Ava’s new film, Origin. Prepare to learn and weep.

#origin #caste #isabel wilkerson #ava duvernay #women in film

[blackinperiodfilms]

Isha Blaaker as Allison Davis and Jasmine Cephas Jones as Elizabeth Davis in Ava DuVernay’s Origin (2023).

This dynamic couple laid the academic foundation for many of the ideas explored in the film around the notion of caste in America. Their journey took them from the segregated south of the United States to Berlin, Germany during the rise of Nazism.

Isha and Jasmine beautifully embody these trailblazers as they endeavor on a landmark - and often dangerous - journey.

#Isha Blaaker #Allison Davis #Jasmine Cephas Jones #Elizabeth Davis #Ava DuVernay #Origin #Origin 2023 #Isabel Wilkerson

[inkinmyskinandsoul]

“Silence in the face of evil itself is evil,” Bonhoeffer once said of bystanders. “God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

Isabel Wilkerson, Caste

#Isabel Wilkerson #Caste #quotes #book quotes #pg 90 #Bonhoeffer #silence #social justice

[moviemosaics]

Origin

directed by Ava DuVernay, 2023

#Origin #Ava DuVernay #movie mosaics #Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor #Aunjanue Ellis #Myles Frost #Finn Wittrock #Niecy Nash #Jasmine Cephas Jones #Isha Blaaker #Hannah Pniewski #Matthew Zuk #Lennox Simms #Jon Bernthal #Gaurav J. Pathania #Isabel Wilkerson

[wellconstructedsentences]

The least-paid people were forced to pay the highest rents for the most dilapidated housing owned by absentee landlords trying to wring the most money out of a place nobody cared about.

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

#the warmth of other suns #isabel wilkerson

[wideeyedreader]

Recently Read: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

5 stars!

#caste #isabel wilkerson #books #just finished #favorites #bookblr #booklr #bookblogger #book blog #book photography

[ausetkmt]

"Nazis were impressed by the American custom of lynching its subordinate caste of African Americans ... Hitler marveled at American "knack for maintaining an air of robust innocence in the wake of mass death." - Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: the Origins of Our Discontent

#https://x.com/suevisa/status/1709047950851354891?s=20 #lynching #white hate #white supremacy #Black Lives Matter #Isabel Wilkerson #Caste #the Origins of Our Discontents

[dolls-and-cats]

I saw this lovely victrola at a museum near me and wanted to get a picture of Claudie with it since phonographs are emblematic of the music in the timeline of her 1920s story.

I'm in Texas, and when this real object was new, this was a very hard place to live for African-American people. I've been affected by reading Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns, so I've talked about it a lot here, and now I'm going to talk about it some more. She says,

"It was ....around the turn of the twentieth century, that southern state legislatures began devising with inventiveness and precision laws that would regulate every aspect of black people's lives, solidify the southern caste system, and prohibit even the most casual and incidental contact between the races. They would come to be called Jim Crow laws...."

As Wilkerson talks about in her book, the laws, the segregation, black people trapped in debt as sharecroppers and barred from professions, the violence and threat of violence and unwillingness of police to prosecute vigilantes, and the widespread indoctrination of white people in white supremacy are why six million black people left the South and moved North or West during the Great Migration. That would have been extremely hard for people who didn't have a lot of money and for people whose whole extended families and friends were here. I do not remember learning anything more than a glancing remark about this history as a child.

Claudie's story is as much or more an introduction for kids to the Great Migration as it is about the Harlem Renaissance. Yay for this story getting told. I'm going to pretend like Claudie is listening to this phonograph up in New York City, where things were hard (as her story addresses a bit within the short page limit) but would have been better than where I am.

#american girl dolls #dollblr #claudie wells #brit bennett #the great migration #isabel wilkerson

[reasoningdaily]

If you are interested in reading this book, hit me up and I'll send you a private copy link. this is one we all need in our digital library

#Isabel Wilkerson #warmth of other suns

[reggieponder]

Origin: Ava DuVernay talks about Race and Caste

Sat down with Ava DuVernay to discuss her new film, "Origin"

Ava DuVernay talks about her new movie “Origin”. As a writer/director, she gives insight into the film and its meaning.

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#AAFCA #african american #Audra McDonald #Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor #Ava DuVernay #film #hollywood #Isabel Wilkerson #Jon Bernthal #movies #Niecy Nash-Betts #Reggie Ponder #The Reel Critic #Youtube

[jmunneytumbler]

'Origin' Brings Isabel Wilkerson's 'Caste' to Vibrant Cinematic Life

'Origin' Brings Isabel Wilkerson's 'Caste' to Vibrant Cinematic Life

CREDIT: NEON/Screenshot Starring: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Emily Yancy, Vera Farmiga, Audra McDonald, Blair Underwood, Donna Mills, Leonardo Nam, Connie Nielsen, Finn Wittrock, Victoria Pedretti, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Mieke Schymura, Isha Blaaker, Myles Frost, Gaurav J. Pathania, Suraj Yengde, Nick Offerman Director: Ava DuVernay Running Time: 135 Minutes Rating:…

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#Audra McDonald #Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor #Ava DuVernay #Blair Underwood #Connie Nielsen #Donna Mills #Emily Yancy #Finn Wittrock #Gaurav J. Pathania #Isabel Wilkerson #Isha Blaaker #Jasmine Cephas Jones #Jon Bernthal #Leonardo Nam #Mieke Schymura #Myles Frost #Nick Offerman #Niecy Nash-Betts #Origin #Suraj Yengde #Vera Farmiga #Victoria Pedretti

[insidewarp]

It occurred to me that no matter where I lived, geography could not save me.

Isabel Wilkerson

#Isabel Wilkerson #quote

[st-just]

Sometimes parents tried to superimpose glory on their children with the grandest title they could think of or, if they were feeling especially militant, the name of a senator or president from the North. It was a way of affixing acceptability if not greatness. It forced everyone, colored or white, to call their janitor sons Admiral or General or John Quincy Adams whether anybody, including the recipient, liked it or not. White southerners who would not call colored people Mr. or Mrs. were forced to sputter out Colonel or Queen instead.

The Warmth of Other Sons, by Isabel Wilkerson

#quote #history #culture #racism #the warmth of other suns #isabel wilkerson

[herbaklava]

“And the idea of that kind of overarching structure that could exist in any society also allows us to see our connections to other societies that predated us or may even be concurrent with ours, to show that we think about ourselves as being exceptional. But we are members of the same species, often doing some similar things that other people in other countries of our species are doing. And this is a way of connecting ourselves with other frameworks of division in hopes that we might learn from it.”

Isabel Wilkerson, On Being with Krista Tippett Podcast

#on being with krista tippett #isabel wilkerson #humanity #quotes