American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has struck racial progress in America.

In 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was recognized as a defining moment for the USA. However, this victory did not take the turn that most Americans hoped for. The election of the country's first black president rekindled the long-standing strains of white supremacy, igniting a new and terrifying phase in an ongoing historical cycle of racial progress and white backlash.

In American Whitelash, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Wesley Lowery explores the return of this violent tendency, demonstrating how the forces of white power countered Obama's victory, capitalizing on and promoting the rise of Donald Trump.

Based on impressive frontline reporting, it investigates four incidents of white violence since 2008: the killing of an Ecuadorian immigrant in a working-class town on Long Island, a mass shooting attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, an attack on a Jewish Community Center in Kansas City, and the killing of Oscar Grant, the first in a persistent series of police shootings that would lead to the largest ongoing mobilization against racial injustice in America since the Civil Rights era.

Combining deep historical analysis with interviews from victims and perpetrators of violence, Lowery reveals how this brutal cycle enters increasingly dangerous territory and how the country might find a path to escape.

Pages: 272, Dimensions: 16.2x16.2cm