It’s a shame that one of last year’s most important films – an innovative adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book ‘Caste’ – was shut out from this year’s Academy Awards
Ava DuVernay directs Origin, an adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The film, which did not receive any Oscar nominations, travels both geographically and through time to examine links between the enslavement of Africans, Nazi Germany, India’s caste system, and the continuing systemic oppression of Black people in the U.S.
The Academy Award snub was made even worse amid all the hullabaloo over Greta Gerwig not being nominated for directing. In her book, Ms. Wilkerson theorizes that what society has viewed as race and class divisions – in the U.S., especially – are in fact part of a hierarchical caste system, an artificial construction created and perpetuated by those in power in order to maintain control.
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