White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (746 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1632864134 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. 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. National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearA Boston Globe Best Book of 2016A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronic
She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of many books and articles, including Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 andEyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights: 1944-1955.
This is necessary reading for anyone interested in understanding--and perfecting--our union." - Natasha Trethewey, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for NATIVE GUARD and Two-term Poet Laureate of the United States"To overcome our racial history, Americans must first learn our racial history--as it truly and painfully happened. Following Anderson, one gains insight by accrual." - Lit Hub"It's shocking, beautifully written, and, with white supremacy knocking on the White House door, more important than ever. If every American read it, maybe we could really begin to have a conversation about race in America." - Senator Al Franken, in answer to the question, "What's the one book you wish all Americans would read right now?", New York Times Book Review"A pow
"outstanding, illuminating book on our unfinished Reconstruction" according to Heather Hadlock. This is a necessary complement to the recent spate of books that ask readers to empathize with white feelings of poverty and disenfranchisement (like Hillbilly Elegy and Strangers in Their Own Land). The research is thorough, the writing is direct and rather dispassionate as it builds a devastating picture of how white citizens, neighbors, propagandists, and legislators have aimed unrelenting violence and intimidation against blac. White Rage or White Fear John G. Collinge “White Rage” is a needed and timely book largely based on secondary literature and internet research with uneven results. It grew out of a 2014 Washington Post oped article Professor Carol Anderson of the Emory History Department wrote in response to the Ferguson, Missouri protests but also has root in her revulsion for the racially motivated attacks on the character and policies of President Obama. The title is . White Rage and Black Apathy There are a great many details/facts about post Civil War and Reconstruction that was not in my American U.S. History book that I read in school. I was totally blown away!!! I would highly recommend. It is a good read with an abundance of newly presented knowledge that explains why we are here today dealing with a variation of racial disparity and I feel a misunderstanding of ethnic groups.