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'Anderson explores country's racial past, present in 'White Rage' '. Her essay became the kernel for this book, which expands and illustrates her thesis. Anderson, a professor of African-American studies at Emory University, wrote a dissenting op-ed in The Washington Post arguing that the events were better understood as white backlash at a moment of black progress, a social and political pattern that she reminded readers was as old as the nation itself.

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Attorney General, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin offered Sessions a copy of White Rage, saying 'I'm hoping he'll take a look at it'. Īt the January 2017 confirmation hearing for Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, candidate for U.S. White Rage was also listed by The New York Times as an Editors' Choice, and won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. 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.

White rage the unspoken truth