“This is a book that could not have happened without Emory University’s incredible intellectual strengths, from students, to faculty, to resources,” says Anderson. Anderson put her research and writing into high gear to get the manuscript into print - and into the national conversation - quickly. The op-ed resulted in a literary agent seeking her out and publisher Bloomsbury offering a book contract. What she did not anticipate was the op-ed going viral with more than 5,000 online comments on the Post’s website, becoming one of the most-read articles of the year. “When you say things of consequence, there are consequences,” says Anderson, who is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor and chair of African American Studies. In her op-ed she called Ferguson “the latest outbreak of white rage,” the result of white backlash against African American advancement. When Emory historian Carol Anderson wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post on protests and lootings in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the death of Michael Brown, she knew there would be a reaction.
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