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🗓️ 8 March 2023
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Prolific author, historian and educator Dr. Carol Anderson joins us to discuss her book The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. We talk about what sparked her interest in writing it, and dissect the role of anti-blackness in the formation and upholding of the second amendment. Carol reveals how she thinks of her writing in terms of persuasion versus education, and why this is the hardest book she has ever written.
The Stacks Book Club selection for March is Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay. We will discuss the book on March 29th with Shanita Hubbard.
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0:00.0 | You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway. |
0:03.8 | We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games, |
0:08.8 | cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks |
0:14.8 | live in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th |
0:21.6 | in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA |
0:26.9 | Laman on September 25th and in L.A. on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be |
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0:40.6 | get your tickets before we sell out. Welcome to the stats, a podcast about books and the people who |
0:55.2 | read them. I'm your host, Tracy Thomas and today I am honored to welcome historian, educator, |
1:00.8 | and writer Carol Anderson to the stacks. Dr. Anderson is the Charles Howard Chandler professor |
1:06.4 | and chair of African American Studies at Emory University and she was named the Guggenheim Fellow |
1:11.3 | for constitutional studies. She's the esteemed author of white rage, one person no vote, |
1:17.1 | bourgeoisie radicals and eyes off the prize. Carol is here to discuss her work and her latest book, |
1:24.0 | the second race and guns in a fatally unequal America which was released in 2021 and is now out |
1:30.5 | in paperback. The second is a powerful account of the way anti-blackness has been integral in the |
1:35.7 | creation, survival, and evolution of the second amendment. Our March book club pick is the essay |
1:41.4 | collection bad feminist by Roxanne Gay. She need a Hubbard will be back on March 29th for our |
1:46.4 | discussion of the book. Quick reminder everything we talk about on each episode of the show can be found |
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