Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. With so much attention on the flames," she argued, "everyone had ignored the kindling."
in history from The Ohio State University.National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerĪ New York Times Notable Book of the YearĪ Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the YearĪ Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016įrom the Civil War to our combustible present, White Rage reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America-now in paperback with a new afterword by the author, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson.Īs Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as “black rage,” historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, "white rage at work. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Miami University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Political Science (International Relations) and a bachelor’s in history. Her op-ed in the Washington Post on Ferguson was the most shared for the newspaper in 2014.
She has appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS NewsHour, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and Democracy Now!, as well as providing commentary for the Huffington Post, The Guardian, New York Times, and Washington Post. She is currently on the Advisory Board of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative. State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee. Professor Anderson’s role as a public scholar has found her serving on working groups dealing with race, minority rights, and criminal justice at Stanford’s Center for Applied Science and Behavioral Studies, the Aspen Institute, and the United Nations and as a member of the U.S. She was recently awarded a 2018 fellowship in Constitutional Studies by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Her research has garnered an array of grants and fellowships, including those sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, the National Humanities Center, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. She has received numerous teaching awards, including Emory’s Williams Award and the university’s Teacher-Scholar Award. As an educator and historian, Professor Anderson has been lauded both by colleagues and students alike for her exciting, nuanced, and accessible approach to research and academia.
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