Carol Anderson
At the Texas Book Festival on November 5, 2017
Born	Carol Elaine Anderson (1959-06-17)June 17, 1959 (age 66)[1]
Occupation	Professor
Board member of	National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI)
Academic background
Alma mater	Miami University(BA, MA) Ohio State University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	African American Studies
Institutions	Emory University
Notable works	White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Website	www.professorcarolanderson.org

Carol Elaine Anderson (born June 17, 1959) is an American academic. She is the Charles Howard Candler professor ofAfrican American Studies atEmory University.^[2] Her research focuses on public policy with regard to race, justice, and equality.^[2][3] In 2023, she was elected to theAmerican Philosophical Society.^[4]

Anderson earned bachelor's and master's degrees atMiami University inOxford, Ohio, in 1981 and 1983, respectively.^[5][2] She earned aPhD in history fromOhio State University in 1995.^[6][2] She was awarded a fellowship to study atHarvard University in 2005, where she worked on her book,Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960.^[6]

Anderson worked as an associate professor of history at theUniversity of Missouri inColumbia.^[5] She was awarded a fellowship for teaching excellence in 2001.^[7] In 2009, Anderson joined the faculty of the African American Studies department at Emory University inAtlanta, Georgia.^[8][2]

In an op-ed forThe Washington Post in 2014, Anderson argued that the conditions leading to theunrest following the 2014 Ferguson shooting was a manifestation of "white rage", orwhite backlash againstAfrican American advancement.^[9] The column was one of the most-read articles of the year, receiving thousands of comments, and Anderson was offered a book contract.^[10] The resulting book,White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, expanded on the history ofanti-black racism and retaliation in the United States.^[10][11][12]

White Rage became aNew York Times Best Seller,^[13] and was listed as a notable book of 2016 byThe New York Times,^[14]The Washington Post,^[15]The Boston Globe,^[16] and theChicago Review of Books.^[17]White Rage was also listed byThe New York Times as an Editors' Choice,^[18] and won the 2016National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.^[19]

Anderson has discussed the historical context ofvoter suppression in relation to allegedintimidation of minority voters during the2016 U.S. Presidential Election.^[20][21] She has also claimed that "white rage" was the reason for the election ofDonald Trump.^[22]

In her 2021 bookThe Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, she argues that theSecond Amendment to the U.S. Constitution created "a particularly maddening set of double standards where race is concerned".^[23] In his review of the book inThe New York Times,Randall Kennedy characterized Anderson's double-standard argument as follows:

On the one hand, she claims that slaveholding founding fathers insisted on the inclusion of the Second Amendment in theBill of Rights in order to assure themselves of a fighting force willing to suppress slave insurrections. On the other hand, she maintains that racist practices have deprived Blacks of access to arms that might have enabled them to defend themselves in the absence of equal protection of law.^[24]

Anderson has protested againsthuman rights abuses of farm workers in Florida, in alliance with theCoalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW). She joined the CIW in calling for the supermarket chainPublix to join theFair Food Program in response.^[25]

Anderson was a member of the Historical Advisory Committee of theU.S. Department of State.^[26] She is on the Board of Directors of the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI).^[27]

Anderson is featured in the 2019 documentaryAfter Selma, directed by Loki Mulholland, where she describes the history and current state of voter suppression in the United States.^[28]

Anderson was named theAmerican Academy of Political and Social Science's 2021 W. E. B. Dubois Fellow.^[29]

• Anderson, Carol (April 21, 2003).Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944–1955.Cambridge University Press.ISBN 9780521531580.
• Anderson, Carol (December 8, 2014).Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 9780521763783.
• Anderson, Carol (May 31, 2016).White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide.Bloomsbury Publishing USA.ISBN 9781632864147.
• Anderson, Carol (September 11, 2018).One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.Bloomsbury Publishing USA.ISBN 9781635571370.
• Anderson, Carol (June 1, 2021).The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.Bloomsbury Publishing USA.ISBN 9781635574258.

• 2003 – Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award,Eyes Off the Prize^[30]
• 2004 – Myrna F. Bernath Book Award,Eyes Off the Prize^[31]
• 2016 –Politico 50^[32]
• 2016 – Winner,National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism,White Rage^[19]

• Current Biography Yearbook 2017. Ipswich, Massachusetts : Grey House Publishing, [2017]. ©2017.

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