Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy.

Residents wait in long line to vote in a presidential primary election outside the Riverside High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on April 7, 2020.

Republicans Could Use the Coronavirus to Suppress Votes Across the Country. This Week We Got a Preview

In 1946, Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo instructed his followers that t...

In 1946, Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo instructed his followers that the way to keep black people from voting was to get “the tar and feathers and don’t forget the match.” In the Jim Crow South,...

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 26: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media while flanked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after arriving at a Senate Republican weekly policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol March 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. Congressional top Democrats have demanded Attorney General William Barr to release special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation report for the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It

When in a recent tweetstorm Donald Trump suggested that four Congresswomen ...

When in a recent tweetstorm Donald Trump suggested that four Congresswomen of color leave the U.S. and “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” social media exploded. Outrage....

A Make America Great Again hat sits on a table ahead of an election-night party for the 2016 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Hilton Midtown hotel in New York City on Nov. 8, 2016

Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety

Obama's election was a major trigger for the policy backlash that led to Do...

Obama's election was a major trigger for the policy backlash that led to Donald Trump

Carol Anderson

Republicans Could Use the Coronavirus to Suppress Votes Across the Country. This Week We Got a Preview

Republicans Want a White Republic. They'll Destroy America to Get It

Donald Trump Is the Result of White Rage, Not Economic Anxiety

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