American whitelash a changing nation and the cost of progress
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The 2008 election of the nation's first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy, igniting a new and frightening phase in a historical American cycle of racial progress and white backlash. Journalist Wesley Lowery charts the return of this blood-stained trend, showing how the forces of white power retaliated against Obama's victory, and both profited from, and helped to propel, the rise of Donald Trump. Interweaving deep historical analysis with firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, Lowery uncovers how this vicious cycle is carrying us into ever more perilous territory, how the federal government has failed to intervene, and how we still might find a route of escape.