Carol Anderson

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Carol Elaine Anderson (born June 17, 1959) is an American academic. She is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University.{{cite web|title=Carol Anderson|url=http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/anderson-carol.html|website=Emory University|access-date=February 1, 2017|archive-date=August 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824092931/http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/anderson-carol.html|url-status=dead}} Her research focuses on public policy with regard to race, justice, and equality.{{cite web|title=Carol Anderson|url=http://www.nesri.org/about/board-of-directors/carol-anderson|website=National Economic & Social Rights Initiative|access-date=February 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151206080204/http://www.nesri.org/about/board-of-directors/carol-anderson|archive-date=December 6, 2015|url-status=dead}} In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.{{cite web | url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/american-philosophical-society-welcomes-new-members-2023 | title=The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2023 }}

Education

Anderson earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in 1981 and 1983, respectively.{{cite web|title=Alum Carol Anderson to speak on lynching and U.S. foreign policy|url=http://miamioh.edu/news/article/view/3215|website=Miami University|access-date=February 1, 2017|date=January 13, 2004}} She earned a PhD in history from Ohio State University in 1995.{{cite web|title=Making History at The Ohio State University|url=https://history.osu.edu/sites/history.osu.edu/files/MH2005.pdf|website=Department of History|publisher=The Ohio State University|access-date=February 1, 2017|pages=41–42|date=2004–2005}} She was awarded a fellowship to study at Harvard University in 2005, where she worked on her book, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960.

Career

Anderson worked as an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She was awarded a fellowship for teaching excellence in 2001.{{cite web|title=William T. Kemper Fellowships for Teaching Excellence|url=http://provost.missouri.edu/awards/campus-awards/kemper.php|website=Office of the Provost|publisher=University of Missouri|access-date=February 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924093427/http://provost.missouri.edu/awards/campus-awards/kemper.php|archive-date=September 24, 2017|url-status=dead}} In 2009, Anderson joined the faculty of the African American Studies department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.{{cite news|title=Emory prof to discuss racism at UofL|url=http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2015/10/19/emory-prof-discuss-racism-uofl/74225746/|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=The Courier-Journal|date=October 19, 2015}}

In an op-ed for The Washington Post in 2014, Anderson argued that the conditions leading to the unrest following the 2014 Ferguson shooting was a manifestation of "white rage", or white backlash against African American advancement.{{cite news|author1=Carol Anderson |title=Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops. It's white rage against progress. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901122250/http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress/2014/08/29/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html |archive-date=September 1, 2014 |access-date=February 1, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 29, 2014}}{{cbignore}} The column was one of the most-read articles of the year, receiving thousands of comments, and Anderson was offered a book contract.{{cite web|author1=Elaine Justice|title=Anderson explores country's racial past, present in 'White Rage'|url=http://news.emory.edu/stories/2016/05/upress_white_rage_anderson/campus.html|website=Emory University|access-date=February 1, 2017|date=May 31, 2016}} The resulting book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, expanded on the history of anti-black racism and retaliation in the United States.{{cite news |last1=McCarthy |first1=Jesse |author-link1=Jesse McCarthy |title=Why Are Whites So Angry?|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/books/review/white-rage-by-carol-anderson.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160627124147/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/books/review/white-rage-by-carol-anderson.html |archive-date=June 27, 2016 |access-date=February 1, 2017 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 24, 2016}}{{cbignore}}{{cite news|author1=Shelia Poole|title=Author and Emory prof Carol Anderson on "white rage"|url=http://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/author-and-emory-prof-carol-anderson-white-rage/wQE85KHAvVLCmADej1eW5J/|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=October 18, 2016}}

White Rage became a New York Times Best Seller,{{cite news|title=Race and Civil Rights|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2016/08/14/race-and-civil-rights/|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 2016}} and was listed as a notable book of 2016 by The New York Times,{{cite news|title=100 Notable Books of 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2016.html|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 23, 2016}} The Washington Post,{{cite news|title=Notable nonfiction books in 2016|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/notable-nonfiction-books-in-2016/2016/11/17/a976696c-9dde-11e6-9980-50913d68eacb_story.html|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 17, 2016}} The Boston Globe,{{cite news|title=Best books of 2016|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/12/07/best-books/YogFuxKTVPooo8odn8UQBP/story.html|access-date=February 1, 2017|publisher=Boston Globe|date=December 7, 2016}} and the Chicago Review of Books.{{cite web|author1=Adam Morgan|title=The Best Nonfiction Books of 2016|url=https://chireviewofbooks.com/2016/12/14/the-best-nonfiction-books-of-2016/|website=Chicago Review of Books|access-date=February 1, 2017|date=December 14, 2016}} White Rage was also listed by The New York Times as an Editors' Choice,{{cite news|title=Editors' Choice|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/books/review/editors-choice.html|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 1, 2016}} and won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.{{cite news|title=National Book Critics Circle Announces 2016 Award Winners|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-winners-for-2016-awards|access-date=April 17, 2017|publisher=National Book Critics Circle|date=March 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401105313/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-winners-for-2016-awards|archive-date=April 1, 2019|url-status=dead}}

Anderson has discussed the historical context of voter suppression in relation to alleged intimidation of minority voters during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.{{cite news|author1=Ricky Riley|title=Emory Professor Perfectly Sums Up How Black Resistance Is Met with Extreme White Backlash|url=http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/11/01/emory-professor-perfectly-sums-black-resistance-met-extreme-white-backlash/|access-date=February 1, 2017|newspaper=Atlanta Black Star|date=November 1, 2016}}{{cite web |title=Democrats Sue Trump & GOP Under 1871 KKK Act for Threatening Voters of Color |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/1/democrats_sue_trump_gop_under_1871 |website=Democracy Now! |access-date=February 1, 2017 |date=November 1, 2016}} She has also claimed that "white rage" was the reason for the election of Donald Trump.{{cite magazine |author1=Carol Anderson |title=Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety |url=https://time.com/4573307/donald-trump-white-rage/ |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161122090215/http://time.com/4573307/donald-trump-white-rage/ |archive-date=November 22, 2016 |access-date=February 1, 2017 |magazine=Time |url-status=live |date=November 16, 2016}}{{cbignore}}

Anderson has protested against human rights abuses of farm workers in Florida, in alliance with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). She joined the CIW in calling for the supermarket chain Publix to join the Fair Food Program in response.{{cite web|title="Atrocities: Not our Business" by Emory University Professor and NESRI Board Member Carol Anderson|url=http://www.nesri.org/news/2013/10/atrocities-not-our-business-by-emory-university-professor-and-nesri-board-member-carol-anderson|website=National Economic & Social Rights Initiative|access-date=February 1, 2017|date=October 29, 2013}}

Anderson was a member of the Historical Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State.{{cite web|title=Historical Advisory Committee – About Us|url=https://history.state.gov/about/hac/june-2006|website=Office of the Historian|publisher=U.S. Department of State|access-date=February 1, 2017|date=June 2006}} She is on the Board of Directors of the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI).{{cite web|title=Board of Directors|url=http://www.nesri.org/about/board-of-directors|website=National Economic & Social Rights Initiative|access-date=February 1, 2017|archive-date=February 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226004156/https://www.nesri.org/about/board-of-directors|url-status=dead}}

Anderson is featured in the 2019 documentary After Selma, directed by Loki Mulholland, where she describes the history and current state of voter suppression in the United States.{{Cite web|title=After Selma|url=https://joantrumpauermulholland.org/shop/after-selma/|access-date=2020-06-18|website=Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation|language=en-US}}

Anderson was named the [https://www.aapss.org/ American Academy of Political and Social Science's] 2021 W. E. B. Dubois Fellow.{{Cite web |date=2022-02-21 |title=Carol Anderson |url=https://www.aapss.org/fellow/carol-anderson/ |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=AAPSS |language=en-US}}

Selected publications

{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Carol |title=Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955|date=April 21, 2003|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521531580|url=https://archive.org/details/eyesoffprizeunit0000ande|url-access=registration}}
{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Carol |title=Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960|date=December 8, 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521763783|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r8OTBQAAQBAJ}}
{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Carol |title=White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide |date=May 31, 2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9781632864147}}
{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Carol |title=One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy |date=September 11, 2018 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9781635571370}}
{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Carol |title=The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America |date=June 1, 2021 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=9781635574258}}

Selected awards and recognition

2003 – Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, Eyes Off the Prize{{cite web|title=Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Winners|url=http://web.mnstate.edu/schwartz/GustavusMyers.htm|publisher=Minnesota State University Moorhead|access-date=February 1, 2017}}
2004 – Myrna F. Bernath Book Award, Eyes Off the Prize{{cite web|title=The Myrna F. Bernath Book Award|url=http://www.shafr.org/content/myrna-f-bernath-book-award|website=The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations|access-date=February 1, 2017}}
2016 – Politico 50{{cite web|title=Carol Anderson & Michael Tesler|url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/politico50/2016/carol-anderson-michael-tesler|website=Politico|access-date=February 1, 2017}}
2016 – Winner, National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, White Rage