![]() The book traces white rage from the Civil War to the present. Those policies pile one on top of the other.”Īnderson said she not only wanted to show the corrosive power of white rage, but also to, “blow graphite on that fingerprint” and trace it historically. “White rage works cool, methodically, systematically through courts, through the legislature, through school boards, through the White House,” said Anderson, whose New York Times bestseller won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She defines white rage as the reaction many white Americans have had historically to African American advances, dating back to the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery and continuing to the present day. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship to better understand and address the nation’s legacies of slavery, racism and discrimination.Īnderson, author of the critically acclaimed White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and chair of African American Studies at Emory University, spoke Nov. The Mellon Lecture Series, which will continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. ![]() – Policies that create barriers to black achievement are often the result of “white rage,” award-winning author and scholar Carol Anderson said as she kicked off the first talk in Georgetown’s Mellon Lecture Series last week. ![]()
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