Isabel Wilkerson

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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BONUS EPISODE with Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Isabel joins the Armchair Expert to discuss caste systems in the United States, the patterns of regression in civil rights in this country and giving someone the basic benefit of the doubt. She explains assumptions of competence, how embedded assumptions are and that caste systems aren't only about race. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:13.6	Welcome, welcome to arm chair expert.
0:16.5	I'm Dan Shepard.
0:17.5	I'm joined by Miniatures, Mouseimus.
0:21.0	Maximus, Mouse. Well, you're all things. Your Maximus, mouse-mist.
0:23.0	Well, you're all things, your Maximus, Minimus, and Middle-Miss,
0:28.0	Middlest. Is the middle-miss word?
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:30.0	It's rare that we record the intro immediately after we've recorded the guests.
0:35.0	I kind of like it.
0:36.0	I do too because I'm so passionate about her right now.
0:38.0	And when we hung up with her, you and I just geeked out on how awesome she was.
0:42.0	Yes, she's phenomenal. Her name is
0:44.0	Isabel Wilkerson. Isabel is an American journalist and the author of The
0:48.6	Warmth of Other Sons, the epic story of America's Great Migration and her new book which is phenomenal cast the
0:55.3	origins of our discontent she was the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer
1:01.0	Prize in journalism.
1:02.6	Wow, I didn't know that.
1:04.1	You didn't know that when we were talking to her?
1:06.0	No, I'm glad I didn't know that.
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