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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
17 reviews
mmassey's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
An important, but challenging read on racial division in history up to recent times.
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
knkoch's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
medium-paced
5.0
This was a scorching historical review of “white rage”, or essentially white opposition in the US to black ambition and progress after the abolition of slavery. Anderson illuminates white rage to be both bloodthirsty white mobs and the cold, calculated policy decisions made by white lawyers, legislators, judges, law enforcement, and school board officials.
I’m always interested in the history I felt was hidden from me as a student, and this is quite extensive. All the whitewashing, white guilt, and watered down versions of our nation’s history are critically interrogated here. A blistering but essential read.
I’m always interested in the history I felt was hidden from me as a student, and this is quite extensive. All the whitewashing, white guilt, and watered down versions of our nation’s history are critically interrogated here. A blistering but essential read.
Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Police brutality
This book illuminates all of the white opposition and racism white people should avoid hiding from, but it’s very graphic. White Americans in particular, though, should push themselves to read this and reduce their ignorance of our historical role in perpetrating these offenses.rillastone's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Moderate: Racism and Police brutality
kimdalia's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.75
Graphic: Hate crime, Racial slurs, and Racism
tsprengel's review
challenging
emotional
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Racial slurs
ldandridge's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Interesting & informative, but overall not particularly insightful or life-changing. The quality of the writing isn't stellar, and I think that a book of this undertaking - tracing the white backlash to gains made by Black Americans from the Emancipation Proclamation through Obama's presidency - needs more than 160 pages. The afterword to the paperback edition was good, and the book would certainly feel very incomplete without it. That said, it was interesting to see this arc laid out over nearly 200 years of history.
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Hate crime
Minor: Slavery and Religious bigotry
ege's review
challenging
informative
medium-paced
5.0
This book provides the history of white backlash to black civil rights progress in the United States, Reconstruction, the Great Migration, Brown v. Board, the Civil Rights Act, and the election of Obama. The paperback edition includes an afterword that discusses the American political landscape post-2016. I'd recommend checking out the paperback, if you have the option. Specifically, this books discusses the ways that the lawmakers opposed to this progress tried to legally weasel their way into maintaining the status quo.
If you're the type of person who wants to believe "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice", but you wish that it would bend a little faster, and it's important to you that we maintain the progress that's already been made, this is required reading. People are still using the strategies outlined in this book, and it's important to know the history of what they're doing, in order to understand them better. The author does a really good job connecting the history in this book to a modern audience.
If you're the type of person who wants to believe "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice", but you wish that it would bend a little faster, and it's important to you that we maintain the progress that's already been made, this is required reading. People are still using the strategies outlined in this book, and it's important to know the history of what they're doing, in order to understand them better. The author does a really good job connecting the history in this book to a modern audience.
Graphic: Hate crime and Racism
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