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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. 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.. 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. 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. With so much attention on the flames,” she writes, &

This powerful book is the place to start." David Von Drehle, author of RISE TO GREATNESS: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND AMERICA’S MOST PERILOUS YEAR. 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. Reading through all the frightfully inventive ways in which America makes racial inequality a matter of law (and order) has a dizzying effect: like watching a quick-cut montage of

British5 said Spot-On Book with a Spot-On Title, Necessary Reading for Academics and Others Alike. A necessary book for both academics and non-academics alike, White Rage is well-organized, thoroughly researched, and accessible to a large range of readers. Rather than simply accepting the tired phrase "black rage," which reflects a nation's color-blind disregard for the etiology of our current racial divide, Dr. Anderson reveals the true motivation for much of the legal, cultural, and even physical (such as murder) behaviors which have been exhib. Truthful, accurate, and much needed for the millennial generation Millennials are the future and this historical analysis provides an insight for how their generation can fulfill America's promise for all Americans. I chose this book for its accurate and summative accounting of America's political and social trajectory. I really liked the supporting documentation footnotes that substantively bolsters the author's main argument, although I would have titled the book "White Fear" which promotes the rage the author a. LoveBooks said Great read to end the summer!. Carol Anderson's White Rage is a brillant achievement at connecting the many events of African American progress with historical events of American history. When I commenced reading the book, I realized that in order to be fully engaged with her intellectual prowess I would need to set aside my personal connections with the events (as an African American) and emotions, and be more objective. Once I did that, I was able to get through some of the mos

She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of many books and articles, including Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 and Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights: 1944-1955. . Carol Anderson is professor of African American studies at Emory University

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