{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"'Caste' author Isabel Wilkerson on America's race and class hierarchy","publication_date":"August 05, 2020","summary":"Racism, both past and present, remains at the forefront of the American national conversation. Now, a new book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines how hierarchy and class are substantially intertwined with race in America. Jeffrey Brown talks to Isabel Wilkerson, author of \"Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent,\" as part of our ongoing coverage of arts and culture, Canvas.\r\n","author_name":"By PBS NewsHour","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2020\/08\/85e49eefbce9921b9f16f67a4fc59c8e-nhbookshelf-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}