Author of 'White Rage' to Speak on Racial Divide One Year After Presidential Election

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Carol Anderson

The African and African American Studies Program in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will host Carol Anderson, author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, who will present the lecture, "One Year Later: Where We Are Now and the Cultural Context Leading up to the 2016 Presidential Election," at the University of Arkansas.

Her lecture will take place at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14, in Room 103 of the Donald W. Reynolds Center for Enterprise Development. This event is free and open to the public.

Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. Her research and teaching focus on public policy, particularly the ways that domestic and international policies intersect through the issues of race, justice and equality in the United States. Anderson's most recent book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, received the National Book Critics Award in the criticism category and was described by The New York Times Book Review as "an extraordinarily timely and urgent call to confront the legacy of structural racism ... and to show its continuing threat to the promise of American democracy."

Anderson is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 and Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960. Her research has garnered substantial fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, National Humanities Center, Harvard University's Charles Warren Center, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.  

In addition, Anderson has contributed to working groups that address race, minority rights, and criminal justice at the Aspen Institute and the United Nations. Her op-ed in the Washington Post was the most shared for the newspaper in 2014. In the past, Anderson has served as a member of the U.S. State Department's Historical Advisory Committee, and she is currently on the Board of Directors of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

Co-sponsors of Anderson's visit to the University of Arkansas include the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, the Sam M. Walton College of Business, the Honors College, University Libraries, the Center for Multicultural and Diversity Education, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science, the School of Social Work, and the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice.