ONLINE: An Evening with Isabel Wilkerson
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Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste and The Warmth of Other Suns.
Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson has written two critically acclaimed books that focus on the Black experience in America:
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents and
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America s Great Migration. On Jan. 25 she will be the keynote speaker for UW-Madison s virtual Martin Luther King Jr. symposium. The work to fulfill Dr. King s vision of racial equality continues today, and Wilkerson is carrying on this work, says Chancellor Rebecca Blank. (The presentation will be replayed on Feb. 9: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKt LIZzK6fi2BqbGw8jEuw
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On Jan. 25, the University of WisconsinâMadison will welcome the highly respected narrative nonfiction writer Isabel Wilkerson as the keynote speaker for the virtual Martin Luther King Jr Symposium.
âThe work to fulfill Dr. King’s vision of racial equality continues today, and Wilkerson is carrying on this work,â says Chancellor Rebecca Blank. “We look forward to hearing her presentation in honor of MLK Day here on campus.â
Isabel Wilkerson Photo by Joe Henson
Wilkerson, winner of the National Humanities Medal, is best known for her works, âCaste: The Origins of Our Discontentsâ and âWarmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Americaâs Great Migration.â Her books focus on how the history of Black people in America can help everyone understand the issues Black people still experience in this country today. Wilkerson has a uniqu
By Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. by Martin Aitken
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One might assume that the “cyclops” in the title of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s first collection of critical essays published in English has something to do with visual art or photography, core subjects of many of these essays. But no, the immediate subjects of “In the Land of the Cyclops” are Knausgaard’s allegedly myopic critics.
“One cyclops . compared me to Anders Behring Breivik,” begins Knausgaard’s litany. “. Another cyclops wrote that I was a Nazi. . Many cyclopes have publicly contended that I’m a misogynist, that I hate women.” Another cyclops “has claimed I’m a literary pedophile who has abused young girls. . So what was my crime? I wrote a novel.”
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