@article{760407,
      recid = {760407},
      author = {Anderson, Carol},
      title = {White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide /},
      pages = {246 pages ;},
      abstract = {"As 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 showing that this was, instead, 'white rage  at work. 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 towards full participation in  our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and  relentless rollback of their gains. 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. 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. Carefully linking these and other  historical flash points when social progress for African  Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted  opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long  covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy,  fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud,  rendering visible the long lineage of white rage.  Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it  relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to  the national conversation about race in America"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/760407},
}