S1E104 - American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery
Episode Notes
Recent acts of racial violence are often explained aways as isolated incidents yet a longer view of our nation’s history provides much-needed context to understand our present moment and what may lay ahead. In his latest book, American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress, Wesley Lowery brings together insights from history, interviews, data, and a close examination of six cases of white racial violence that occurred in the decade following Obama’s election. He demonstrates how periods of white racist backlash have occurred after moments of social progress.
_Wesley Lowery is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and one of the nation's leading reporters on issues of race and justice. He is the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University in Washington DC. He is also the author of the New York Times best-selling book, _They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.
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