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Prologue & Chapter 1

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Anderson, Carol. White Rage. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016. 2nd edition paperback, 2017.

Prologue: Kindling

• The prologue begins on page 1, after the table of contents.

• In the prologue, the author, Carole Anderson, explains that she initially wrote about “white rage” in a Washington Post Op-ed in 2014, following the “killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent uprising in Ferguson, Missouri” (1).

• Anderson explains that she had been thinking of “white rage” since the death of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Black man shot 41 times by police officers in New York in 1999.

• Anderson describes how, rather than condemning Diallo’s murder, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani praised the white police and even described officers, not Black people, as victims.

• Giuliani said that the real issue was the “community’s racism against police” (1).

• Anderson argued in her article that good...

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