{"id":6098,"date":"2022-10-07T12:18:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T12:18:42","slug":"__trashed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2022\/10\/07\/__trashed-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Discusses Anti-Blackness and Gun Legislation on CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cover of Carol Anderson’s 2021 book, The Second<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Dr. Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was quoted in a CNN article on the racialized dimensions of contemporary legislation related to gun possession and gun control. Anderson’s most recent book, The Second: Race and Guns in an Unequal America<\/a> <\/em>(Bloomsbury, 2021), interrogates the links between anti-Blackness and the second amendment throughout U.S. history. Read an excerpt from the article below along with the full piece: “The fight to curb gun violence without inflaming racial biases<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The issue when it comes to gun control isn\u2019t necessarily the law, according to Carol Anderson, an African American studies professor at Emory University. Sometimes, the issue is the enforcement<\/em> of the law.

\u201cLet\u2019s go back to the Bruen decision in New York<\/a>, that horrible decision by the US Supreme Court,\u201d Anderson said, referring to the high court\u2019s ruling in June<\/a> that struck down a century-old New York gun law and that observers suspect will unleash a wave of lawsuits seeking to loosen restrictions at the state and federal levels. \u201cThe amicus curiae brief from public defenders said, The NYPD has used this law to go after Black folks. Look at what this has done<\/em>.\u201d

Anderson, the author of \u201cThe Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America<\/a>,\u201d said that, at the core, the problem was policing.

\u201cThat\u2019s the component I don\u2019t think is understood well enough,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to clean up policing.
Until we take anti-Blackness seriously, we\u2019re going to keep dancing around the issue.\u201d<\/p>\nBrandon Tensley and Eva McKend, “The fight to curb gun violence without inflaming racial biases<\/a>,” CNN, July 31, 2022.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department, was quoted in a CNN article on the racialized dimensions of contemporary legislation related to gun possession and gun control. Anderson’s most recent book, The Second: Race and Guns in an Unequal America (Bloomsbury, 2021), interrogates the links […]<\/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-6098","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\/6098","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=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}