Carol Anderson | The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Recorded June 10, 2021

In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award-winning journalist and broadcaster

Carol Anderson is the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner White Rage, “a riveting and disturbing history” (The Nation) of white people and how they worked against Black advancement since Reconstruction. Her other books include Bourgeois Radicals; Eyes off the Prize; and One Person, No Vote, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. The Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Anderson has earned fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the National Humanities Center, among many others. Her latest book offers a sobering look at the ways in which all levels of the government, white people, and U.S. courts have consistently weaponized the Second Amendment since its creation to deny African Americans their rights and citizenship.

In appreciation of the George S. Pepper Society