Dr. Carol Anderson has published a new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Bloomsbury, 2021). Examining the establishment of the right to bear arms in relationship to the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans, Anderson’s work argues that the Second Amendment has consistently kept African Americans “powerless and vulnerable.” Dr. Anderson, who is Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, Department Chair, and Associated Faculty in the History Department, has spoken about this newest work with multiple media organizations and on a book tour. Find a list of some of the coverage of her newest work below:

• Kelefa Sanneh, “From Guns to Gay Marriage, How Did Rights Take Over Politics?” The New Yorker, May 21, 2021.
• Randall Kennedy, “Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery?” The Washington Post, May 28, 2021.
• ‘Do Black people have Second Amendment rights?‘ CNN, May 31, 2021.
• “Historian Uncovers The Racist Roots Of The 2nd Amendment,” Fresh Air, June 2, 2021.
• “‘The Second’: Carol Anderson on the Racist Roots of the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms,” Democracy Now!, June 3, 2021.
• “White Supremacy as the Foundation of the Second Amendment,” The Brian Lehrer Show, June 3, 2021.
• “Black Americans Have Always Been Excluded from Second Amendment, Says Author Carol Anderson,” Detroit Today with Stephen Henderson, June 8, 2021.
• “The Second Amendment: How Slave Supporting Politicians Got Their Right to Quell Slave Revolts,” 94.1 KPFA, June 9, 2021.
• All in with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, June 9, 2021.
• “‘The Second’ eyes racial implications of the right to bear arms,” The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, June 14, 2021.
• April Hunt, “Emory historian examines race and guns in new book on Second Amendment,” Emory Report, June 15, 2021.
• “DC Today,” The Black News Channel, June 16, 2021.
• “Do Black Americans Have 2nd Amendment Rights?,” KERA’s Think, June 21, 2021.