Barbara’s Reviews > White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide > Status Update

Well into the part that falls in my lifetime and about which I was mostly clueless, "growing up white". Uncomfortable as this reading might be, I figured I would honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s day by making progress.

Finished the chapter on Burning Brown to the Ground. It was troubling in that all of this was within my own lifetime, but growing up white in middle America I was clueless. Next up, the Civil Rights Movement, which is once more within my lifetime.

We have moved into the "Quantum Leap" section of the book. (Theorizing that time travel within one's own lifetime... i.e. we have entered into years in which I was alive, with the chapter on Brown Vs Board of Education, and the fallout that followed this Supreme Court decision.

I started reading this one after seeing a quote from it in White Fragility.

What I am finding is that White Fragility is a self-examination approach for white readers.

White Rage is history which many of us who grew up white in America were never exposed to unless we went looking for it.

I have finished the chapters on reconstruction, and the great migration. About to start on Brown v Board of Ed.