“The trigger for white rage, inevitably”, writes Anderson, “is black advancement”, and Anderson follows both black advancement and white rage through the most explosive periods in America’s racial history, which the reader comes to understand through the brutal clarity and consistent facts of the historical narrative to be the story of an entitled white supremacy: Working the halls of power, it can achieve its ends far more effectively, far more destructively.” (p. White rage doesn’t have to wear sheets, burn crosses, or take to the streets. Too imperceptibly, certainly, for a nation consistently drawn to the spectacular - to what it can see. It wreaks havoc subtly, almost imperceptibly. White rage is not about visible violence, but rather it works its way through the courts, the legislatures, and a range of government bureaucracies. With so much attention focused on the flames, everyone had ignored the logs, the kindling. Released before “economic anxiety” and the “politics of resentment” defined our narrative about the outcome of that November’s election, the thesis of Carol Anderson’s 2016 “White Rage” comes early in the prologue titled “Kindling”: “What was really at work here was white rage.
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