Author | Carol Anderson |
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Language | English |
Subject | White backlash, white identity politics |
Published | 2016 |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing[1] |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print, e-book |
Pages | 246 pp[1] |
Awards | National Book Critics Circle Award |
ISBN | 978-1-63286-412-3 (Hardcover) |
OCLC | 959941616 |
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide is a 2016 nonfiction book by Emory University Professor Carol Anderson, who was contracted to write the book after reactions to an op-ed that she had written for The Washington Post in 2014.[2]
Anderson, a professor of African-American studies at Emory University, wrote a dissenting op-ed in The Washington Post arguing that the events were better understood as white backlash at a moment of black progress, a social and political pattern that she reminded readers was as old as the nation itself. Her essay became the kernel for this book, which expands and illustrates her thesis.