SLCC Tanner Forum: New York Times Bestselling Author Isabel Wilkerson to Speak on Social Ethics of Caste and Hierarchy
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SALT LAKE CITY, Oct.14, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Award-winning author Isabel Wilkerson will discuss the caste systems that shaped America and still define our lives today during Salt Lake Community College's annual Tanner Forum.
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- SALT LAKE CITY, Oct.14, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --Award-winning author Isabel Wilkerson will discuss the caste systems that shaped America and still define our lives today during Salt Lake Community College's annual Tanner Forum.
- The book, published in August 2020, is currently being adapted into a Netflix film directed, written and produced by Ava DuVernay.
- In her lectures, she explores the need to reconcile America's karmic racial inheritance a notion she expresses in her widely-shared op-ed essays in The New York Times.
- Tanner Company, the Tanner Forum on Social Ethics brings nationally and internationally recognized speakers to SLCC.