![]() ![]() Carol Anderson’s new book, “White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide,” brings such a historical context sharply back into focus. ![]() To see the full picture, whiteness must be understood in light of our national history, specifically the use of state power to engineer preferential treatment for whites and deliberately impose cumulative disadvantage on blacks. Unfortunately, this reversal of perspective has tended to seize on the shallower ways in which whiteness functions in American life. From discussions of diversity on campus and white appropriation of black culture to #OscarsSoWhite, “whiteness” as a cultural and social category has become a subject for scrutiny and criticism in ways that “blackness” was in years past. ![]() But over the last eight years something very important has emerged in the way race gets discussed in America: the foregrounding of whiteness. $26.Īs the Obama presidency draws to a close, it is clear that the post-racial democracy it was supposed to inaugurate has not materialized. WHITE RAGE The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide By Carol Anderson 246 pp. ![]()
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