{"id":6543,"date":"2023-04-06T02:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=6543"},"modified":"2023-04-06T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T02:06:13","slug":"anderson-publishes-article-on-floridas-long-sordid-past-in-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/04\/06\/anderson-publishes-article-on-floridas-long-sordid-past-in-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Publishes Article on Florida’s “Long, Sordid” Past in ‘The Washington Post’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, recently published an article in The Washington Post’s <\/em>“Made by History” series. Titled “Florida\u2019s past paints Ron DeSantis\u2019s war on \u2018wokeism\u2019 in a dark light<\/a>,” Anderson’s article discusses the endemic anti-Black violence and political disenfranchisement that characterized Florida society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Anderson links this history to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s contemporary political campaign against on “wokeism,” which Anderson argues is, in fact, “a war on the marginalized” and the denial of the “existence of systemic injustice.” Read an excerpt from the article below along with the full piece: “Florida\u2019s past paints Ron DeSantis\u2019s war on \u2018wokeism\u2019 in a dark light<\/a>.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s war on ‘wokeism,’ often minimized as a\u00a0culture war<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0taking on the establishment<\/a>\u00a0to build his conservative brand, is actually a war on the marginalized. Sensing that they don\u2019t have the power to fight back, he tramples the Constitution,\u00a0state law<\/a>\u00a0or whatever gets in his way. The targeting is clear. DeSantis\u2019s own attorney defined ‘woke’ as ‘the belief there are systemic injustices<\/a>\u00a0in American society and the need to address them’

“By\u00a0denying the existence of systemic injustice<\/a>, DeSantis is placing himself in a long, sordid Florida history that has targeted the civil rights of African Americans in the Sunshine State. It is a history scarred by lynching, rigged trials, massive disfranchisement, instilling fear and showcasing the systemic assault on the rule of law.<\/em>“<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, recently published an article in The Washington Post’s “Made by History” series. Titled “Florida\u2019s past paints Ron DeSantis\u2019s war on \u2018wokeism\u2019 in a dark light,” Anderson’s article discusses the endemic anti-Black violence and political disenfranchisement that characterized Florida society in the nineteenth and twentieth […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiracism","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543","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=6543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}