Clearly my preferred learning style is visual rather than auditory. Consequently I love reading. Blessed with good eyesight there are still limits on how much time I can spend reading each day. During the spring, summer and early fall that has not been an issue becasue I have so many outdoor projects. In anticipation of winter, when likely I'll be more confined to indoors, I've begun to explore podcasts. With my handy hearing aids the audio of the podcasts is received by my hearing aids allowing me to listen and understand with ease.
Among my first forays into podcasts is Oprah's Book Club. Oprah says Caste: The Origins of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson is the most important book ever considered on the Club. Wilkerson has won the Pulitzer Prize and is author of the best selling The Warmth Of Other Suns, which details the migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities. Wilkerson and Oprah have eight podcasts about Caste.
Having read Warmth I was well aware that Wilkerson was a fine writer and researcher. Hearing her on Oprah's podcasts proves that she is also phenomenally articulate. Not all writers can speak as well as they write but Wilkerson does. Oprah invites others into the podcast, several of whom have been mentioned in the book.
Wilkerson writes "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."
Oprah's 8 sessions with Wilkerson, are each a half-hour. I highly recommend them.
Takk for alt,
Al
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