Coming June 22, 2023
AMERICAN WHITELASH:
A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
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“Lowery provides urgent, necessary perspective…. A masterful blend of narrative history and empathetic reporting.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“An infuriating, radicalizing read… ”
Washington Post Book World
“The rise of white supremacist violence is one of the most important stories in American life today. In American Whitelash, Wesley Lowery guides the reader through the social, psychological, and historical realities that animate this violence. It is both a brilliant and unsettling examination of a part of America that many Americans would prefer to look away from. This book reminds us that we cannot look away. American Whitelash is an essential text, one that further demonstrates why Lowery is one of our country’s most important and gifted journalists.”
Clint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed
“Wesley Lowery chronicles the most existential racial story of our time: the racist political violence that followed Obama’s election, fueled Trump’s rise, and continues to threaten our very existence. American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.”
Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist
“Wesley Lowery’s American Whitelash is an essential chronicle of America’s recent past, told with a historian’s sense of scope and a reporter’s eye for detail. Already the most compelling journalist covering the Black Lives Matter movement and its catalysts, here Lowery astutely turns his focus to the forces of reaction that both preceded the election of Barack Obama and found new strength in its aftermath.”
Adam Serwer, author of The Cruelty is the Point
‘They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement” Published November 2016
"Lowery's book is electric, because it is so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart.... Lowery's book is valuable for many reasons. He circles slowly and warily around the question of why, during Obama's presidency, so little has happened to improve on the racial front."--Dwight Garner, New York Times
"Riveting.... A timely, significant book." ―Kirkus, Starred Review
"With empathy, anguish, and a superb eye for telling detail, Wesley Lowery chronicles the birth of the new civil rights movement. This book is an urgent, grounds-eye view of the struggle."
―Chris Hayes, author of A Colony in a Nation
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"[A] vital book.... Setting the fatal police shootings of young black men in the historical context of racial violence, Lowery also adds personal insight as a young biracial man professionally bound to the crisis." ―Elle