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

Authors

Stephen C. Finley, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
Lori Latrice Martin, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge

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Description

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.

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LOC Call Number

E184 .A1 R4455 2020

ISBN

9781474473705

Publication Date

2020

Department

Department of African and African American Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

City

Edinburgh

Recommended Citation

Finley, Stephen C. and Martin, Lori Latrice, "The Religion of White Rage: Religious Fervor, White Workers and the Myth of Black Racial Progress" (2020).