Public school systems in the United States have generally been segregated by race, with a large majority of funding being directed to predominantly white schools.
If a black person tried to defend themselves, they were arrested and punished, while the white attackers were not punished.Ĭhapter 3 focuses on education in America. White Northerners devised and enacted systems of segregation, and they also perpetrated various large-scale acts of violence against black people. As their numbers grew in the North, white Northerners grew increasingly angry and fearful. Nonetheless, many black people did successfully migrate. The South’s economy still relied heavily on exploiting black workers, so the South employed various measures to forcibly prevent black people from migrating. Black people in the South began to migrate to the North in large numbers. These leaders then instated various laws and institutions to essentially re-create conditions of slavery in the South.Ĭhapter 2 focuses on the Great Migration, which began in the 1910s. Johnson was complicit in reinstating Confederate leaders in positions of power. Johnson was from the South, and pardoned many Confederate leaders. After Lincoln was assassinated, Andrew Johnson served as President. Although Abraham Lincoln pursued the abolition of slavery, he expressed direct opposition to the idea that black and white people should ever be equal under the law. These dynamics often function to portray the perpetrators of racial oppression as moral, and the victims of racial oppression as immoral.Ĭhapter 1 focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction eras of American history. These dynamics dominate government and media in the United States. The book’s prologue provides a brief introduction to racism and white rage in America.
This book examines racism in the United States, with a focus on how white supremacy has shaped American culture, laws, and politics in fundamental and destructive ways. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide is a nonfiction book by Carol Anderson, a professor of African American Studies at Emory University. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.
The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Anderson, Carol.
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