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Short Review: This is the story of five gains for the Black community and the resulting backlash. The framing of this history is important. Because commonly we understand the Black protests, but we do not pay attention to the White backlash to gains.
The five movements pairs are, 1) end of slavery and reconstruction with the backlash to reconstruction and ‘redemption'. 2) The great migration pairs with the (White) race riots of the late 1910s and early 1920s. 3) Brown v Board with the anti-integration movement. 4) Affirmative action and the anti-affirmative action policies. 5) Obama's election and the movement toward voting restrictions. These are not definitive for all of the examples of White Rage in US history but emblematic. And like what Jemar Tisby pointed out in Color of Compromise, each one was less overt and more subtle than the last, but still rooted in racism.
I am not going to recount the history here, but I have nearly 2000 words on my longer review.
My only real complaint is that the audiobook and kindle book are not synced up. Not really sure why, but it was irritating that I couldn't highlight sections I wanted to unless I specifically went to find them.
My longer review: http://bookwi.se/white-rage/
