White Rage.nfo
General Information
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Title: White Rage
Author: Carol Anderson
Read By: Pamela Gibson
Genre: Nonfiction: World Affairs
Copyright: 2016
Audiobook Copyright: 2016
Publisher: Audible, Ltd
Release date: 2016-07-26
Duration: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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Encoded Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
Encoded Channels: 2
Encoded Bitrate: 64 kbits
Book Description
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National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Criticism, 2016.
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the
angry response of African Americans as 'black rage', historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington
Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames,' she wrote, 'everyone
had ignored the kindling.'
Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full
participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end
of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954
Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while
taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965
triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised
millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House.
Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by
deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name
of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white
rage.
Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the
national conversation about race in America.
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