![]() ![]() White House, and then the election of Americas first black President. White Rage is an important new addition to the national dialogue about race in America. This lecture focuses on the ways that domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice and equality in the United States. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson (Paperback). Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery, every time African Americans have made advances towards full democratic participation, negative white reaction has sparked a deliberate pushback against their gains. White Rage won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and was a New York Times best seller. ![]() Anderson wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that this was instead white rage in action.Īnderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University and a Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies. The events of August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri were referred to as black rage by media commentators in describing the angry response by African Americans. ![]() From the Civil War to the Ku Klux Klan to current examples of police brutality, her work is just as relevant when discussing present-day headlines as it is to the past. White rage doesn’t have to wear sheets, burn crosses, or take to the streets. In White Rage, Carol Anderson demonstrates how strong pushback against racial progress has been ongoing throughout our history. ![]()
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