Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently quoted in an article published on The 19th, a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics and policy. Titled “‘We’ versus ‘Me’: Suffrage centennial exposes vote gap in Black and White women,” the piece charts the divergent histories of voting rights activism, organizing, and victories for Black and White women from the movement to pass the 19th amendment through the present. Read an excerpt quoting Anderson below along with the full piece.

In the century since White women won access to the ballot, they have often sided with White men, choosing their race over their gender to maintain an unequal America, says Carol Anderson, Emory University professor and author of “One Person, No Vote.”

“Black women’s political power has been about strengthening the United States,” Anderson said. “For White women, it has been about entrenching White supremacy. It is about the ‘we’ versus the ‘me.’ And it’s that difference in framing that is fundamental.” 

Dr. Thomas D. Rogers, Arthur Blank/NEH Chair in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences (2018-2021) and Associate Professor of Modern Latin American History, recently published an opinion piece in Brasil Wire. Titled “Ethanol: Fuel for Corruption,” the article was co-written with Rogers’s collaborator Jeff Manuel (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville). Rogers and Manuel are writing a transnational history of biofuels in Brazil and the United States. The Brasil Wire article situates recent ethanol-fueled corruption in a longer historical arc of biofuel business, policy, and politics within and between the two countries. Read a description of the article below, along with the full piece.

“Ethanol burst into the news cycle again last week with reports that the US ambassador to Brazil had lobbied for the cancellation of an ethanol tariff, arguing that the move would help Trump’s reelection. As historians writing a transnational history of ethanol in Brazil and the United States, we recognize the episode as part of a familiar pattern. Within and between the two countries, corruption has followed the politically-charged fuel and so have battles over its market. This history reveals the irony of the recent attacks on Brazil’s tariff.”

Matt Galloway, host of the Canada Broadcasting Corporation program The Current, recently interviewed Dr. Carol Anderson about the significance of the nomination of Kamala Harris for vice president on the Democratic ticket. Harris, who accepted the formal nomination this week, would be the first Black woman and person of Indian descent to serve as vice president in the United States. Anderson discusses how voters may respond to Harris’s record in the general election, as well as how her nomination might serve to galvanize voters in the face of suppression tactics. Anderson, who most recently authored  One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2018), is Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department.

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, charts the evolution of voter suppression tactics in a recent interview and video essay in The Washington Post. Anderson discusses how those tactics have morphed from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries through the present. She is the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2018) and White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Bloomsbury, 2016). View the full Washington Post piece here: “Opinion | Voter suppression never went away. It evolved.”