White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide: .uk: Anderson Ph.D. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 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. Buy White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Reprint by Anderson Ph.D., Carol (ISBN: 9781632864130) from Amazon's Book Store. 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. 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 Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow.

'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. 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.

White rage the unspoken truth of our racial divide