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May 3, 2024 · Writing a new book, journalist Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) investigates historic and present-day caste structures — while overcoming personal tragedies. by Kelechi Ehenulo ...
Mar 7, 2024 · At the simplest level, the movie is an adaptation of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the 2020 non-fiction bestseller by American writer Isabel Wilkerson. Her thesis was that under the...
Jan 16, 2024 · “Origin” aims to link the violent repercussions of American slavery to the horrific crimes of the Holocaust to India’s degrading caste system in a narrative that combines gnawing grief with a cyclical sense of history.
Jan 18, 2024 · The story of four young anthropologists — two married couples, one white, one Black — secretly embedding themselves on either side of the racial divide in 1930s Mississippi to research a ...
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Dec 7, 2023 · Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” is as audacious as it is ambitious. At its core, it concerns an intellectual argument about history and hierarchies of power, but it’s also about the fraught process of...
Jan 2, 2024 · Ava DuVernay brings the non-fiction book to life in a revolutionary way, getting "inside the story" the same way Wilkerson does whenever she feels called to write. Origin debuted at the Venice ...
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Mar 6, 2024 · Origin: Ava DuVerney’s book biopic presents an ambitious study of caste systems. Ava DuVerney’s dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s bestselling non-fiction book about the enduring existence of caste systems is thought-provoking, but the film’s crowded template eventually becomes unwieldy.
