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Isabel Wilkerson is a professor of journalism at Emory University, where she is completing the archival research for a book to be published this year on the twentieth-century migration of African-Americans from the South to the North and the subsequent reverse migration of the current generation. As Chicago bureau chief of the New York Times, she won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for her profile of a ten-year-old boy growing up with a man’s obligations on the South Side of Chicago. Her work has also won the George Polk Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. |