{"id":6199,"date":"2022-10-31T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6199"},"modified":"2022-10-31T17:53:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T17:53:03","slug":"anderson-speaks-at-10th-annual-athens-democracy-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2022\/10\/31\/anderson-speaks-at-10th-annual-athens-democracy-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Speaks at 10th Annual Athens Democracy Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"International Premiere of \u201cI, Too\u201d  Documentary Film by Carol Anderson\" width=\"730\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L1-QYAeDQss?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">International premier of Dr. Carol Anderson&#8217;s film <em>I, Too.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aas.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/anderson-carol.html\">Carol Anderson<\/a>, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department,\u00a0recently participated in the Athens Democracy Forum in the Greek capital. The event &#8211; now in its tenth year &#8211; is convened by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracyculturefoundation.org\/\">Democracy &amp; Culture Foundation<\/a> in association with The New York Times. Anderson screen her film <em>I, Too <\/em>at the forum (marking the film&#8217;s international premier) and discussed how voter suppression tactics in the U.S., particularly those that limit the right of American-Americans to vote, are threatening American democracy. Read an excerpt from the <em>New York Times&#8217;s <\/em>coverage of the event below, along with the full article here: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/06\/world\/athens-democracy-forum-misinformation-disinformation.html?searchResultPosition=1\">TikTok, Fake News and Obstacles to the Ballot Box<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Carol Anderson \u2014 a professor of African American studies at Emory University in Georgia and the maker of a documentary titled \u201cI, Too,\u201d which was screened in Athens \u2014 kicked off the debate with an urgent entreaty for voter registration to be simplified. <br><br>One of the first things that we have to recognize, in the U.S. context, is that you have the rise of what we call voter suppression laws,\u201d she said. \u201cThese laws were targeted at key elements in the population to ensure that they would have multiple obstacles to have to jump over\u201d to vote.<br><br>Those groups are then blamed for not voting, when in fact, they faced, and continue to face, \u201cobstacles that look race-neutral, but that are racially targeted. What we have to do is dismantle the barriers to voting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr.\u00a0Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and Associated Faculty in the History Department,\u00a0recently participated in the Athens Democracy Forum in the Greek capital. The event &#8211; now in its tenth year &#8211; is convened by the Democracy &amp; Culture Foundation in association with The New York Times. Anderson screen her film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-events","category-faculty","category-public-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199","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=6199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}