White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

Recommended by Michelle Williams, Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Carol Anderson’s “White Rage” shows us that whenever African Americans started to make any strides (in education, voting, employment, home ownership), those gains were a threat to the status quo of inequality — those strides sparked incredibly intense and well-organized blowback — all of which leads me to appreciate just how insidious and persistent racial hatred is in the U.S. We have to get smarter, bystanders … we need your help, it is not enough to proclaim that you’re not racist, we need your help.