The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Black Racial Progress

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress.

This book sheds light on the phenomenon of white rage, and maps out the uneasy relationship between white anxiety, religious fervour, American identity and perceived black racial progress. Contributors to the volume examine the sociological construct of the "white labourer", whose concerns and beliefs can be understood as religious in foundation, and uncover that white religious fervor correlates to notions of perceived white loss and perceived black progress. In discussions ranging from the Constitution to the Charlottesville riots to the evangelical community’s uncritical support for Trump, the authors of this collection argue that it is not economics but religion and race that stand as the primary motivating factors for the rise of white rage and white supremacist sentiment in the United States.

• | Author: Biko Mandela Gray, Stephen C. Finley, Lori Latrice Martin
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 15, 2020
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781474473705
• | ISBN-10: 1474473709