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A review by knkoch
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
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: 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.