"American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is." Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistFrom a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn 2008, Barack Obamas historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the USA. And so it would be just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election of the nations first Black president fanned longburning embers of white supremacy, igniting a new and frightening phase in a continuous historical cycle of racial progress and white backlash.In American Whitelash, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist and bestselling author Wesley Lowery charts the return of this bloodstained trend, showing how the forces of white power retaliated against Obamas victory and both profited from, and helped to propel, the rise of Donald Trump. Drawing on gripping firsthand reporting, he investigates four incidents of white violence since 2008 the killing of an Ecuadorian immigrant in a workingclass town in Long Island, a mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, an attack on a Jewish Community Center in Kansas City, and the murder of Oscar Grant, the first in an unrelenting series of police shootings that would lead to the largest sustained protest movement in the US since the Civil Rights era.Interweaving deep historical analysis with interviews with both victims and perpetrators of violence, Lowery uncovers how this vicious cycle is...

Binding: Hardback;272 pages; Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 584 g; Dimensions: 164 x 244 x 28

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