![]() And while the topic is heavy, she brings joy and laughter to the conversation in a way that can only leave you smiling through the pain. Anderson provides us with a clear eyed look at the history that has led to the widely inequitable education system we have today. With a gift for making the illegible legible, Dr. Board decision, and all of the ways that the progress promised in the decision were undermined both in the immediate aftermath of the decision, and continuing through to today. She joins us to discuss her work, in particular, chapter 3 from White Rage – “Burning Brown to the Ground”, which looks at the White rage backlash to the Brown v. Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University and author of White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, and The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. At the core of her research agenda is how policy is made and unmade, how racial inequality and racism affect that process and outcome, and how those who have taken the brunt of those laws, executive orders, and directives have worked to shape, counter, undermine, reframe, and, when necessary, dismantle the legal and political edifice used to limit their rights and their humanity. In short, education strengthens a democracy.” Dr. Perhaps, most meaningfully, educational attainment significantly increases voter participation. It reshapes the health outcomes of a people it breaks the cycle of poverty it improves housing conditions it raises the standard of living. “Since the days of enslavement, African Americans have fought to gain access to quality education. ![]()
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