Reviews tagging 'Hate crime'

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

9 reviews

calamitydane's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book taught me so much. It challenged so many of the things I learned in school and really expanded my knowledge. The thesis was really well defended and the end was so hopeful in spite of everything.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racism, Body horror, Classism, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Genocide, Violence, Torture, Slavery, and Murder

corngod31's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gore, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Death, Murder, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, and Rape

kerttuli's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Colonisation, Rape, and Police brutality

Minor: Religious bigotry and Slavery

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

3.5

This book was slow paced but had interesting information that will be particularly helpful for framing my dissertation. The idea that white people are enraged (knowingly or not) by the advancement of Black people supports the lack of investment in the education of Black children in this country. It also supports the rise of the Donald Trump era and everything that MAGA stands for. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, War, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Sexism, Religious bigotry, Racial slurs, Violence, Torture, Death, Mass/school shootings, Bullying, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder, Racism, and Police brutality

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Violence, Torture, Slavery, Police brutality, and Hate crime

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.

kimdalia's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Hate crime

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Hate crime

Minor: Religious bigotry and Slavery

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Hate crime