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White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide, Carol Anderson

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As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, with media commentators referring to the angry response of African Americans yet again 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 writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances toward 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 and imprisoned millions of African Americans. Carefully linking these and other historical flash points when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted white opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered punitive actions allegedly made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates over a century and a half, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
246 pages
Contents
  • Prologue: Kindling
  • Reconstructing Reconstruction
  • Derailing the Great Migration
  • Burning Brown to the Ground
  • Rolling Back Civil Rights
  • How to Unelect a Black President
  • Epilogue: Imagine
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9781632864123
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White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide
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White rage
Title remainder
the unspoken truth of our racial divide
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Carol Anderson
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Language
eng
Summary
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, with media commentators referring to the angry response of African Americans yet again 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 writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances toward 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 and imprisoned millions of African Americans. Carefully linking these and other historical flash points when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted white opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered punitive actions allegedly made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates over a century and a half, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America
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Anderson, Carol
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non fiction
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  • Whites
  • Whites
  • Opposition (Political science)
  • Racism
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White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide, Carol Anderson
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-229) and index
Contents
Prologue: Kindling -- Reconstructing Reconstruction -- Derailing the Great Migration -- Burning Brown to the Ground -- Rolling Back Civil Rights -- How to Unelect a Black President -- Epilogue: Imagine
Control code
19020910
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
246 pages
Isbn
9781632864123
Lccn
2015049398
Label
White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide, Carol Anderson
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-229) and index
Contents
Prologue: Kindling -- Reconstructing Reconstruction -- Derailing the Great Migration -- Burning Brown to the Ground -- Rolling Back Civil Rights -- How to Unelect a Black President -- Epilogue: Imagine
Control code
19020910
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
246 pages
Isbn
9781632864123
Lccn
2015049398

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