{"id":5347,"date":"2021-12-05T04:02:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2021-12-05T04:02:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T04:02:37","slug":"anderson-quoted-in-ap-news-article-about-white-vigilantism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2021\/12\/05\/anderson-quoted-in-ap-news-article-about-white-vigilantism\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Quoted in &#8216;AP News&#8217; Article about Vigilantism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emory.edu\/election\/2020\/experts\/anderson.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a> was recently quoted in the <em>Associated Press News <\/em>article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ahmaud-arbery-kyle-rittenhouse-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-5a9b847506d388b7358b7de8b9079bb2\">2 trials, 1 theme: White men taking law into their own hands<\/a>.&#8221; Following the trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery, the piece examines white vigilantism in historical and contemporary perspective. Anderson&#8217;s most recently book,<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.professorcarolanderson.org\/the-second\">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America<\/a> <\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2021), charts how anti-Black racism shaped the Second Amendment. Read an excerpt from the <em>AP News<\/em> piece below, along with the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ahmaud-arbery-kyle-rittenhouse-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-5a9b847506d388b7358b7de8b9079bb2\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cSo much of this issue about protection and safety is about the safety and the protection of whites or white property,\u201d said Carol Anderson, historian and professor of African American studies at Emory University. \u201cThere is a hubris of whiteness. The sense that it is on me to put Black lives back into their proper place.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carol Anderson was recently quoted in the Associated Press News article &#8220;2 trials, 1 theme: White men taking law into their own hands.&#8221; Following the trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and the three men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery, the piece examines white vigilantism in historical and contemporary perspective. Anderson&#8217;s most recently book, The Second: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}