White Rage Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA Publish Date: 2016/05/31 Synopsis: From the end of the Civil War to the tumultuous issues in America today, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America
A necessary book for both academics and non-academics alike, White Rage is well-organized, thoroughly researched, and accessible to a large range of readers. Rather than simply accepting the tired phrase "black rage," which reflects a nation's color-blind disregard for the etiology of our current racial divide, Dr. Anderson reveals the true motivation for much of the legal, cultural, and even physical (such as murder) behaviors which have been exhibited. Re..
White Outrage would be a better description of what I was feeling as I read this book. I was reading this during a time when the movie Hidden Figures was playing in theaters and was amazed that the real people that the movie was based on were able to achieve what they did, given the attitude toward blacks at that time. It makes me feel sad that we don't seem to have progressed much in 2017 . This was a good historical summary of life in the US after the civil wa..