{"id":1597,"date":"2016-09-07T11:32:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2016-09-07T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T11:32:38","slug":"dr-carol-anderson-at-the-ajc-decatur-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2016\/09\/07\/dr-carol-anderson-at-the-ajc-decatur-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carol Anderson at the AJC Decatur Book Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41NIXdnG2PL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"381\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/home\/people\/faculty\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a> recently spoke with <em>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u00a0<\/em>journalist Rosalind Bentley in advance of her appearance at the AJC Decatur\u00a0\u00a0Book Festival.\u00a0Anderson puts recent police violence and the\u00a0Black Lives Matter movement in historical context, and the interview includes commentary about her new book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B01D1RUOJU\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2016).\u00a0Check out a clip below and read the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/entertainment\/books-literature\/emorys-carol-anderson-on-white-rage-other-issues-i\/nsNSL\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;If you only define status as, &#8216;I got mine,&#8217; and you define what this nation has to offer as a zero-sum game \u2014 meaning you can only get something at my expense \u2014 then there\u2019s fear. Exclusivity is shortsighted and it will destroy this nation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Carol Anderson recently spoke with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\u00a0journalist Rosalind Bentley in advance of her appearance at the AJC Decatur\u00a0\u00a0Book Festival.\u00a0Anderson puts recent police violence and the\u00a0Black Lives Matter movement in historical context, and the interview includes commentary about her new book,\u00a0White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide\u00a0(Bloomsbury, 2016).\u00a0Check out a clip below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-publications","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}