White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
May 2016 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, "white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames," she argued, "everyone had ignored the kindling."
Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House, and then the election of America's first black President, led to the expression of white rage that has been as relentless as it has been brutal.
Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
New York Times Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016
A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, "white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames," she argued, "everyone had ignored the kindling."
Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House, and then the election of America's first black President, led to the expression of white rage that has been as relentless as it has been brutal.
Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
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December 5, 2020
I say we give every race that has recieved mistreatment and or been enforced into slavery reprecutions. Oh wait.. That's all of them? Jewish people in egypt/germany. Europeons to romans, africans and middle easterns. Africans to themselves and to half the world. Tibet/taiwan to china... The list goes on. How about instead of focusing on single narratives of racism we look at the big picture. Every race, nation, or gender has been mistreated or enslaved by another. Even to this day women (and some men) are mistreated and sold into the sex trade. Let's not focus on the past in where we can find examples everywhere. But on the present problems that are more prominent. When was the last time someome was openly killed for their skin and proclaimed to be from that. The world isnt what it was. Even if you go back 50 years to segregation. But people want to focus on the past and "rectifying" it instead of realizing that even in this era there are much more dangerous problems then "racism".
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jason Barry
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July 1, 2020
Book is an example of the racism that is afflicted upon white Americans by the black community. When a white person spews racist rhetoric whites universally almost denounce and ostracize those voices . Where is the black communities commendation of racist and stereotypical portrayals of white people in America ? Racism is alive and well. It's just changed places . Sad to see the gains I've seen being squandered.
Awesome Cat
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August 13, 2019
Typical propoganda byJoogle.What a bunch of antiwhite racism the fact is they are pushing whiteguilt on the population to breed out the whiterace becaue of the real racist ones on top.The majority of racism comes from((them))on top and brown supremacists esp the ones coming across the border breaking laws taking from tax payers manipulating other races espwhites to seduce them.Many already claimed they want to make the world brown and do this worldwide also disarming real men to do it further majority of the crimes comes from them to.Facts.Look up Kinsreedeemer,we are the chosen ones they want to breed out!
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About the author
Carol Anderson, PhD, is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of White Rage, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, Bourgeois Radicals, and Eyes off the Prize. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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