White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide is a 2016 nonfiction book by Emory University Professor Carol Anderson, who was contracted to write the book after reactions to an op-ed that she had written for The Washington Post in 2014.

[2] Anderson details her thesis of white backlash in the United States[1] and states that structural racism has brought about white anger and resentment.

She further describes the shutdown of schools in response to the Brown v. Board of Education, ruling of the US Supreme Court and the opposition to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as causes of the Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs, which she says were both attempts to disenfranchise black voters.

[4] White Rage became a New York Times Best Seller,[5] and was listed as a notable book of 2016 by The New York Times,[6] The Washington Post,[7] The Boston Globe,[8] and the Chicago Review of Books.

[11] At the January 2017 confirmation hearing for Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, candidate for U.S. Attorney General, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin offered Sessions a copy of White Rage, saying "I'm hoping he'll take a look at it".