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A review by megelizabeth
White Rage by Carol Anderson
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.0
"...Whiteness defends itself. Against change, against progress, against hope, against black dignity, against black lives, against reason, against truth, against facts, against native claims, and against its own laws and customs."
This is an incredibly frank, informative look at key events throughout US history that have led to things being the way they are today. I learnt so much about topics I only had basic knowledge about, and Anderson does a great job of covering so much history in such a short book. There are a few points at which I felt further expansion would have been useful, such as including a discussion around the formation and rise of the NAACP and further explaining the growth of knowledge around the Reagan administration's drug trafficking scheme (and a bit more linking back to the central concept of white rage), but on the whole this is a very well-written and well-structured book that definitely does what it sets out to do, and one I'd recommend to all white people everywhere.
This is an incredibly frank, informative look at key events throughout US history that have led to things being the way they are today. I learnt so much about topics I only had basic knowledge about, and Anderson does a great job of covering so much history in such a short book. There are a few points at which I felt further expansion would have been useful, such as including a discussion around the formation and rise of the NAACP and further explaining the growth of knowledge around the Reagan administration's drug trafficking scheme (and a bit more linking back to the central concept of white rage), but on the whole this is a very well-written and well-structured book that definitely does what it sets out to do, and one I'd recommend to all white people everywhere.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Murder, Death, Child death, Police brutality, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Rape