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The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle

Cherry, Myisha·2021
DOI 10.1093/oso/9780197557341.001.0001
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The Case for Rage is a philosophical defense of anger, particularly anger at racial injustice. Crossing the terrain of moral psychology, ethics, philosophy of race, and social and political philosophy, the book shows anger’s varieties and cautions readers not to paint it in broad strokes. The book shows how a certain kind of anger at racial injustice is a fitting, appropriate, and correct response to racism; can motivate those who are outraged at racism by affecting their beliefs and desires; and can be productive in the fight against racism. It also explains how a person can resist white supremacy with their rage by breaking racial rules. The book also provides suggestions for how the angry might manage their anger—not through eradication or moderation, but through cultivation and community.

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  • Lorde identifies the erotic as invaluable for sensitizing oneself to what is unjust, intolerable, or missing from a life, including the information made available by negative feelings like pain, justified fear, and anger.

    “Lorde identifies the erotic also as invaluable for sensitizing oneself to what is unjust, intolerable, or missing from a life -to the information made available by negative feelings like pain, justified fear, and anger”

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Authors
Cherry, M.
Affiliations
University of California, Riverside (US)
Corresponding author
Cherry, Myisha
ORCID
Cherry, Myisha
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
Published
2021-10-19
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780197557341.001.0001
OpenAlex
W4289718281
Cited by
269
References
76
Citations by year
2026: 80 · 2025: 87 · 2024: 54 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 3
FWCI
46.71
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotions and Moral Behavior
Keywords
anger, racial injustice, racism, white supremacy, moral psychology, philosophy of race, resistance to racism, anger management, community, moral motivation

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