# Angry White Men
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{{Short description|2013 book}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era
| image = Angry White Men.jpg
| border = yes
| caption = First edition
| publisher = [Nation Books](/source/The_Nation_Institute)
| author = [Michael Kimmel](/source/Michael_Kimmel)
| published = 2013
| country = United States
| language = English
| pages = 320
| isbn = 978-1-56858-696-0
}}
'''''Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era''''' is a sociological critique of the [angry white male](/source/angry_white_male) phenomenon in America by [Michael Kimmel](/source/Michael_Kimmel), first published in 2013. The book was re-published in April 2017 with a new preface by Kimmel discussing U.S. President [Donald Trump](/source/Donald_Trump).[{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/27/michael-kimmel-masculinity-far-right-angry-white-men|title='Angry white men': the sociologist who studied Trump's base before Trump|last=Conroy|first=J. Oliver|date=2017-02-27|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-04-26}}]
==Overview==
Kimmel examines what he describes as the "'''aggrieved entitlement'''" of white men in early 21st-century American society. According to Kimmel, many white men, as members of a historically dominant group in America, have reacted to increases in [social equality](/source/social_equality) and the loss of economic advantage with overt anger and rage. Written from a scholarly perspective, the book describes various manifestations of this anger, including [domestic violence](/source/domestic_violence), shootings, involvement in [white supremacist](/source/white_supremacist) groups,[{{cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-kimmel/angry-white-men/|title=Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel|date=3 September 2013|publisher=Kirkus Reviews}}] and the [men's rights](/source/men's_rights) and [fathers' rights](/source/fathers'_rights) movements.[{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/books/review/angry-white-men-by-michael-kimmel.html|title=Even Madder Men|author=Rosin, Hanna|date=22 November 2013|work=The New York Times|authorlink=Hanna Rosin}}] Each chapter of the book discusses a different topic and population of men, including young men and violence, men's rights groups, men's violence toward women, the white working class, and white supremacist groups such as [Neo-Nazis](/source/Neo-Nazism).[{{Cite journal|last=Foste|first=Zak|date=2014-10-15|title=Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era by Michael Kimmel (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/556688|journal=Journal of College Student Development|language=en|volume=55|issue=6|pages=633–635|doi=10.1353/csd.2014.0060|issn=1543-3382|url-access=subscription}}]
==Reception==
Describing the book as a "missed opportunity", the ''[Financial Times](/source/Financial_Times)'''s Gary Silverman writes: {{blockquote |The angrier the white man, the more fascinated Kimmel tends to be. As a result, he pays far less attention to the white male followers of the [Tea Party](/source/Tea_Party_movement) – who are playing a central role in US politics today – than to fringe figures ranging from tattooed racial supremacists to 'rampage school shooters'.[{{cite news |last=Silverman |first=Gary |title=Angry White Men, by Michael Kimmel |url=https://www.ft.com/content/03940f5a-61c7-11e3-916e-00144feabdc0 |work=Financial Times |date=22 December 2013 |url-access=subscription }}]}}
Sarah Sobieraj from [Tufts University](/source/Tufts_University) writes that the book will "inspire robust debate in many undergraduate classrooms" but that it "will not, however, be popular with angry white men," noting that it is a "shame" that the men who are represented within the book are likely the men that will not want to read it.[{{Cite journal|last=Sobieraj|first=Sarah|date=May 30, 2014|title=Book Review: Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era|journal=Men and Masculinities|volume=17 |issue=2|pages=223–225|doi=10.1177/1097184X14533645}}] Zak Foste from [Ohio State University](/source/Ohio_State_University) "honors" Kimmel for his work interviewing so many men with whom he disagreed on a fundamental level in order to write this book.