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White Rage:

The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

New York Times Bestseller

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year

A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of the Year

From the Civil War to our combustible present, Carol Anderson’s New York Times bestselling White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.

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 any gains. Carefully linking historical flashpoints—Civil War Black Codes to expressions of white rage after the election of America’s first black president—Anderson renders visible the long lineage of white rage and the different names under which it hides.

Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage adds a vital new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.

“A sobering primer on the myriad ways African American resilience and triumph over enslavement, Jim Crow, and intolerance have been relentlessly defied by the very institutions entrusted to uphold our democracy.” —The Washington Post

“[A] powerful survey of American history, as seen in the violent white reactions to black progress.” —The Boston Globe

“Shocking, beautifully written, and, with white supremacy knocking on the White House door, more important than ever.” —Ed Young, The Millions