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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
13 reviews
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.
Content Warnings
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.caitlinemccann's review
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Slavery, and Violence
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Hate crime
Minor: Slavery and Religious bigotry
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