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Author to address ‘un-civil rights movement’ Feb. 13 |
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Kathleen Amerkhanian |
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Feb 9, 2007 |
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Dr. Carol Anderson of the University of Missouri-Columbia will give a Black History Month address titled "'When the Levees Broke': Un-Civil Rights in America" Tuesday, Feb. 13, at noon in the Law Center Auditorium on Main Campus.
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Anderson argues that the results of Hurricane Katrina cannot simply be blamed on natural catastrophic forces or even on governmental incompetence. “Hurricane Katrina’s devastation was no accident, no mere blip of governmental incompetence, no confluence of the perfect storm and a sinking city,” she said. “Instead, the human catastrophe in New Orleans was the result of decades of deliberate public policy decisions — made and not made in the international realm.”
During her talk, Anderson will describe the causes and continuing ramifications of what she calls the “un-civil rights movement.”
Anderson is the author of the book, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, published in 2003 by Cambridge University Press. The book was awarded the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards and was a finalist for the W.E.B. Du Bois and Truman Book Awards. In Eyes Off the Prize, she explores how the Cold War, anti-communism, Southern Democrats, the development of the United Nations, and international human rights affected the struggle for black equality in the United States.
In her forthcoming book, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, she uncovers the long-hidden role of the nation's most powerful civil rights organization in fighting for the liberation of peoples of color in Africa and Asia.
A recent address Anderson gave at the Truman Presidential Museum and Library in Independence, Mo., was broadcast on C-SPAN.
Currently an associate professor of history at the University of Missouri and a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, Anderson has received research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, National Humanities Center and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Miami University and completed her doctoral studies at Ohio State University.
For more information on the free, public talk, call the UT Law Communications Office at 419.530.2712.
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