American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is. - Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an AntiracistFrom a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn 2008, Barack Obamas historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the USA. And so it would be - just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election of the nations first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy, igniting a new and frightening phase in a continuous historical cycle of racial progress and white backlash.