Summary Of White Rage By Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson is a professor at Emory University, who teaches African American History. Through post-Reconstruction racial terror, to the extraordinary legal efforts by officials to block African Americans from fleeing repression, she discovers the ideas of white rebellion from anti-emancipation revolts. She consistently makes connections to present day actions by legislative and judicial across the country that has criminalized and suppressed blacks and their right to vote. In her book “White Rage” Anderson lists white Americans’ long efforts to hinder African American progress. She mentions the hateful response to Obama’s victory alongside a list of difficulties that have followed African American steps to success stretching back to the Civil War and emancipation.

Anderson argues that this pattern of advancement has effectively destroyed a bit of progress made by African Americans since the Emancipation Proclamation. White Rage portrays numerous situations when hard-won gains by African Americans have been turned around. An example would be in 2008, the black voter rates nearly equaled that of whites, the first
Professor Anderson argues that the cause for black children largely remain trapped in segregated and unequal schools is white resistance to the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education. During the 1960s and the 1970s, black unemployment had declined. However, between 1970 and 1978 the number of African Americans enrolled in college had doubled. But through cuts in federal programs and jobs ordered by President Reagan, unemployment rose to almost 16 percent, the highest it had been since the Great Depression and youth employment to about 46 percent. Anderson quotes, “ Reagan chose to cut the training, employment and labor services budget by 70 percent, a cut of $3.805