White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times 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. Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury USA; First Dutch Edition (May 31, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1632864126
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 23
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.85 x 9.55 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #81,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Slavery & Emancipation History #253 in History & Theory of Politics #284 in Discrimination & Racism
• #19 in Slavery & Emancipation History
• #253 in History & Theory of Politics