{"id":5601,"date":"2022-03-28T01:07:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T01:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2022-03-28T01:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T01:07:21","slug":"anderson-contributes-to-nyt-panel-where-does-american-democracy-go-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2022\/03\/28\/anderson-contributes-to-nyt-panel-where-does-american-democracy-go-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Contributes to &#8216;NYT&#8217; Panel &#8220;Where Does American Democracy Go From Here?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a> recently contributed to a <em>New York Times <\/em>panel focused on the theme &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/03\/17\/magazine\/democracy.html?searchResultPosition=1\">Where Does American Democracy Go From Here?<\/a>&#8221; The six panelists offer historical and contemporary perspectives on the state of democracy in the U.S., which has fallen in recent rankings that measure the vitality of democracies across the globe. Anderson is Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department. She is the author, most recently, of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/second-9781635574258\/\">The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America<\/a> <\/em>(Bloomsbury Press, 2021). Read one of Anderson&#8217;s contributions to the panel below and find the full piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/03\/17\/magazine\/democracy.html?searchResultPosition=1\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Anderson<\/strong>: What we\u2019re seeing, I liken it to a land, sea and air attack. The land attack is on voting rights. That is one of the ways that you begin to undermine democracy. The sea attack are these attacks against teaching critical race theory and \u201cdivisive\u201d topics, so you can erase people from American history and erase the role of various people in American history. And the air attack is the loosening of\u00a0Texas and Tennessee both passed laws allowing for permitless carrying of firearms in 2021; the Georgia State Legislature passed a similar bill this year.\u00a0This is a full-blown assault on American democracy that\u2019s going after voting rights, that\u2019s going after education and that is reinforcing political violence as an acceptable method of bringing about your political aims. That\u2019s where we are, and that\u2019s why this moment is so dangerous.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carol Anderson recently contributed to a New York Times panel focused on the theme &#8220;Where Does American Democracy Go From Here?&#8221; The six panelists offer historical and contemporary perspectives on the state of democracy in the U.S., which has fallen in recent rankings that measure the vitality of democracies across the globe. Anderson is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","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=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}