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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 showing that this was, instead, white rage at work With so much attention on the flames, she writes, 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.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. Best Download [ White Rage ] Author [ Carol Anderson ] – kino-fada.fr I remember gratitude that Anderson used the phrase white rage in her column in 14 that started to give the context expanded here after a police officer shot an unarmed Michael Brown six times in the middle of the street until he was dead Still, I hate it that we Whites have to get schooled by POC instead of by ourselves, but that is part of the problem, as well How do we learn to do effective White on White anti racism work We know that many White voters for Trump believe that racism exist I remember gratitude that Anderson used the phrase white rage in her column in 14 that started to give the context expanded here after a police officer shot an unarmed Michael Brown six times in the middle of the street until he was dead Still, I hate it that we Whites have to get schooled by POC instead of by ourselves, but that is part of the problem, as well How do we learn to do effective White on White anti racism work We know that many White voters for Trump believe that racism exists primarily or even only from Blacks against White people and that Blacks are hurting each other mucht...A high 4 stars For some reason, I suspect that many may resist reading this book because of the title White Rage it has a sensationalistic connotation that may be a bit of a turn off But if you re one of those people, don t be deterred The content of White Rage is the opposite of sensationalistic In a relatively short and powerful narrative, Carol Anderson carefully and methodically documents the pervasiveness of racism in the US following the end of slavery She focuses primarily on vo A high 4 stars For some reason, I suspect that many may resist reading this book because of the title White Rage it has a sensationalistic connotation that may be a bit of a turn off But if you re one of those people, don t be deterred The content of White Rage is the opposite of sensationalistic In a relatively short and powerful narrative, Carol Anderson carefully and methodically documents the pervasiveness of racism in the US following the end of slavery She focuses primarily on voting rights, education, employment opportunities, p...Short, intense J accuse on the history of resistance to civil rights and progress on racial issues Starts with the Civil War, and moves through Reconstruction, the Great Migration, Brown v Board of Education, the War on Drugs, the Voting Rights Act, the Obama Presidency all of it A long histo...This book is incredibly powerful And incredibly depressing, and frustrating When I took US History in school, the evils of Reconstruction and Jim Crow were mentioned, but they were also a bit glossed over, partly because the next chapter tended to be and then we had the Civil Rights movement and everything changed for the better, the end This book covers the entire 15...This is a completely enraging book Anderson basically fits her material into five chapters, beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War through President Obama s presidency She is pointing out the ways that America has been granting rights to all its citizens with one hand while taking away the rights of some with the other She has it all copiously documented, which is useful because she tells us some frankly unbelievable things did you know 1 in the early part of the 20th Century black f This is a completely enraging book Anderson basically fits her material into five chapters, beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War through President Obama s presidency She is pointing out the ways that America has been granting rights to all its citizens with one hand while ...Many whites are only now becoming familiar with the term Institutional Racism, and how we benefit in this society merely by being born white Maybe you ve read Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates and you re ready to readabout race in America Carol Anderson marvelously lays out every step forward for African Americans reaching for equitable footing, only to have those rights systematically stripped away by the states This is the ugly history that they don t teach us in public sch Many whites are only now becoming familiar with the term Institutional Racism, and how we benefit in this society merely by being born white Maybe you ve read Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates and you re ready to readabout race in America Carol Anderson marvelo...As I pondered this book, Nina Simone kept popping into my headAlabama s gotten me so upsetTennessee made me lose my restAnd everybody knows about Mississippi G ddamOr perhaps James Baldwin articulated the condition that Simone sang aboutNeither love nor terror makes one blind indifference makes one blindWhite Rage is ostensibly a book about anger An anger that everybody knows about and often ignores Outrage Indignity Disrespect Resentment Disgust Injustice Viciousness Cruelt As I pondered this book, Nina Simone kept popping into my headAlabama s gotten me so upsetTennessee made me lose my restAnd everybody knows about Mississippi G ddamOr perhaps James Baldwin articulated the condition that Simone sang aboutNeither love nor terror makes one blind indifference makes one blindWhite Rage is ostensibly a book about anger An anger that everybody knows about and often ignores Outrage Indignity D...Holy cow is this an important book that I think everyone should read.First of all, the amount of research Anderson has done, even in a relatively short book, is staggering Almost half the pages in my Kindle version were taken up by endnotes there are multiple sources cited on every page I ve read books by Ta ...Heart breaking, infuriating, and absolutely essential, this book delves into the history of systemic racism in American since the post Civil War period Anderson shows who again and again, when black Americans make gains in freedom and prosperity, white Americans come along to tear those gains down It s a short book, with extensive notes, but it took me a while to read because I had to stop frequently to sit in my anger and frustration at this terrible history And Trump s proposed investigatio Heart breaking, infuriating, and absolutely essential, this book delves into the history of systemic racism in American since the post Civil War period Anderson shows who again and again, when black Americans make gains in freedom and prosperity, white Americans come along to tear those gains down It s a short book, with extensive notes, but it took me a while to read because I had to stop frequently to sit in my anger and frustration at this terrible history And Trum...This is an quick read, and describes US history from prior to the Civil War to Barack Obama s presidency This is a powerful book Carol Anderson lays out the way racism has been baked into America s laws at the federal and state levels, and into America s attitudes for many years She describes egregious practices and, at times, horrific violence, occurring whenever African Americans have gained rights, with a steady erosion of these rights since Reconstruction to attacks on the Voting Rights A This is an quick read, and describes US history from prior to the Civil War to Barack Obama s presidency This is a powerful book Carol Anderson lays out the way racism has been baked into America s laws at the federal and state levels, and into America s attitudes for many years She descri...

White Rage
  • English
  • 15 July 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 256 pages
  • 1632864126
  • Carol Anderson
  • White Rage