American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words are the tool used to convince people to pick up the sticks and stones. That’s the argument – girded by reporting and historical research – that Wesley Lowery makes in this book. He looks at the rhetoric that politicians and the media use to describe different groups, including immigrants, people of color, Jews and Muslims. Then, he draws direct connections between that language and some of the deadly violence that has been visited on those communities, with anecdotes from various points throughout U.S. history."