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. 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.

With so much attention on the flames,' she argued, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Because white people are the dominant ethnic group in.National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerĪ New York Times Notable Book of the YearĪ Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearĪ Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016įrom the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America-now in paperback with a new afterword by the author, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson.Īs 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 suggesting that this was, instead, 'white rage at work.

White rage is aggression and oppression against non-white people. Anderson has coined the term ‘white rage’ to describe this phenomenon. The discourse consistently attempts to frame Black people as the primary wrongdoers. Every time people or the media have noticed discrimination against Black people in the U.S., the dominant discourse becomes distorted.

The book’s author, Carol Anderson, noticed this incident as part of a long historical pattern. The mayor, Rudy Giuliani, responded to the incident by defending the police, and even claiming that the NYPD, not Black residents, were the victims of discrimination. Diallo had done nothing wrong, but police shot 41 bullets at him. The book’s prologue begins with the story of Amadou Diallo, and unarmed Black man who was killed by police in New York City, in the year 1999.

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