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A review by ege
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Hate crime