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Carol Anderson

Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies, Emory University
Carol Anderson

Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and a 2018-19 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies. 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 is the author of the New York Times-bestseller White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, which won the National Book Critics Award for criticism. She 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.