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.”

Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, co-authored an op-ed on CNN.com titled “Three years later, Charlottesville’s legacy of neo-Nazi hate still festers.” Lipstadt wrote the article with Roberta Kaplan, lead attorney for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against 24 Neo-Nazis and white supremacists alleged to have organized the racial and religious violence in Charlottesville in 2017. Read an excerpt from the article below along with the full piece here.

“Sadly, it is now clear that the violence and hatred evident at Charlottesville was not a passing moment or a onetime event. Its ideology has served as the inspiration for many others. The alleged killers at the Tree of Life synagogue (Pittsburgh), Chabad Center (San Diego), Walmart (El Paso), Halle synagogue (Halle, Germany) and Al Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre (Christchurch, New Zealand), all had connections to and echoed the slogans and worldview so proudly proclaimed by the groups and individuals who came to Charlottesville.”

Dr. Carol Anderson was recently interviewed on CounterSpin, the weekly radio show produced and hosted by Janine Jackson of FAIR. Read the summary of the episode below along with the full interview here: “Alex Main on Bolivia Coup, Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression.” Anderson is associated faculty in the History Department and Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies.

“The 2020 election had enough problems before the coronavirus and the White House disinformation campaign around voting by mail, and Trump’s latest brazen attempt at derailment and distraction—as we record, that would be his suggestion to postpone the election, but by the time you hear the show, who knows?  We talked about those pre-existing challenges and their historic roots back in February with Carol Anderson, professor of African-American Studies at Emory University, and author of, among other books, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.  We’ll hear part of that conversation as well.”

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was quoted in the recent USA Today article “Before John Lewis, was the bold life and unjust death of Maceo Snipes.” Snipes was the only Black person to vote in the Democratic primary in Taylor County, Georgia, in 1946. The day following, white men arrived at Snipes’s home and shot him. He died two days later. Read more about Snipes’ life, murder, and influence on the website of The Georgia Civil Right Cold Cases Project, based at Emory. Also read the excerpt from the USA Today article quoting Anderson, who is an expert on issues of voter suppression and author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, below.

Professor Carol Anderson, chair of African American studies at Atlanta’s Emory University and author of the recently acclaimed book “One Person, No Vote,” said that Snipes essentially signed his death warrant by voting.

 

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was recently interviewed on Detroit Toady, a show produced by the Detroit NPR affiliate WDET. Anderson discusses her 2016 book White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and draws connections to Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel Invisible Man, which WDET hosts and listeners are reading as part of a summer book club series. Listen to the conversation here: “‘White Rage’ Author on Racial Justice and Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man.’“

Dr. Joseph Crespino, History Department Chair and Jimmy Carter Professor of History, was interviewed on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s show “Political Rewind.” The episode, “History As Comfort, Teacher In Troubled Times,” pairs Crespino with Tamar Hallerman (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Frederick Knight (Professor, Morehouse College), and Doug Shipman (former-CEO Atlanta Center for Civil and Human Rights). Read a quote from Crespino below and listen to the full episode here: “History As Comfort, Teacher in Troubled Times.”

“We have been through incredible divisive times,” Crespino said. “We have faced enormous difficulties before, and I think in that sense history can be a good guide.”