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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide is a 2016 nonfiction book by Emory University professor Carol Anderson. Anderson was contracted to write the book following the reaction to an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in 2014.
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. 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.
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Phew, I had lots of rage reading this. Well researched and with a strong argument. Chapter 4 on the Reagan years is particularly damning and shows how the current political discourse is (horrifyingly) still the same.
Fascinating and infuriating. I'm ashamed how much of this I didn't know about - particularly the Reconstruction and Great Migration chapters. I need to find the paperback edition with the 2016 election afterword.
An excellent book to have in your arsenal of books on social justice, racial equality, and activism. I would read this in conjunction with [b:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 6792458 The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328751532s/6792458.jpg 6996712].