The "birth of the racial caste system" started in Hispaniola, argues "Stateless" documentary filmmaker Michèle Stephenson, and endures in its recent laws.

'Writing With Fire,' the only Indian film in Sundance's world cinema documentary competition, features a women-only news operation in India.

Ava DuVernay’s biopic “Origin” takes an unconventional, odd route in exhibiting Isabel Wilkerson’s grief and analysis of race and caste.

Ava DuVernay will adapt a new feature film for Netflix based on the nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” The book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson ...

In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines the laws and practices that created a bipolar caste system in the U.S. — and how the Nazis borrowed from it.

Wilkerson’s visit had been prompted by a book she was writing that used the Indian caste system to illuminate America’s racial hierarchy.

There are about 2.5 million people of Indian descent living in the United States today. While India’s rich food and dance are celebrated in America, the caste system which Indian emigrants came from ...