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, and then the election of America's first black President, led to the expression of white rage that has been as relentless as it has been brutal. As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans. 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. Buy on Amazon While contemporary curriculum and dedicated educators don’t entirely ignore the racism that permeates the American experience, too many students are taught that incidents of race-related violence are just that: isolated blips that, while. 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. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. With so much attention on the flames,' she argued, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' By the time a third member of the House of Representatives.

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, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.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. The military’s top officer schools congressmen on critical race theory, ‘white rage’ and communism.

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