‘White Rage’ Author Kicks Off Mellon Lecture Series Aimed At Better Understanding Racism
Policies that create barriers to black achievement are often the result of 'white rage,' award-winning author and scholar Carol Anderson said as she kicked off the first talk in Georgetown's Mellon Lecture Series last week.
The Mellon Lecture Series, which will continue into the spring semester, is made possible by a $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to help Georgetown carry out its commitment to produce scholarship to better understand and address the nation's legacies of slavery, racism and discrimination. Anderson, author of the critically acclaimed White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and chair of African American Studies at Emory University.
She defines white rage as the reaction many white Americans have had historically to African American advances, dating back to the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery and continuing to the present day...