White Rage became a New York Times Best Seller, and was listed as a notable book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and the Chicago Review of Books. Board of Education, ruling of the US Supreme Court and the opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as causes of the Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs, which she says were both attempts to disenfranchise black voters. She further describes the shutdown of schools in response to the Brown v. She describes the Jim Crow era as a reaction to the end of the American Civil War and to the Reconstruction era. Her analysis of American history is that whenever African Americans gained social power, there was considerable backlash.
Summary Īnderson details her thesis of white backlash in the United States and states that structural racism has brought about white anger and resentment.
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide is a 2016 nonfiction book by Emory University Professor Carol Anderson, who was contracted to write the book after reactions to an op-ed that she had written for The Washington Post in 2014. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide For the concept it discusses, see white backlash. Carefully linking these and other historical flash points when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted white opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered punitive actions allegedly made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud.This article is about the book. 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 and imprisoned millions of African Americans. 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 Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow. '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 toward full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. Summary: "As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, with media commentators referring to the angry response of African Americans yet again as 'black rage,' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage' at work.
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