Podcast: “Illegal Immigration and the Black community”–Interview with Carol Swain
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Biography statement from the website of Carol Swain:
“Carol M. Swain, born in Bedford, Virginia, was one of twelve children. Although she never attended high school, she earned a high school equivalency diploma and her first academic degree from Virginia Western Community College. She received a B.A. from Roanoke College and M.A. from Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2000 was awarded a M.L.S from Yale Law School. She is a foundation member of the Nu of Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Swain, formerly a tenured faculty member at Princeton University, is currently Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. She is a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University. In 2003, Dr. Swain founded the Veritas Institute, Inc., a non-profit organization, dedicated to promoting justice and reconciliation among people of different races, ethnicities, faith traditions, and nations.
She is the author of Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 1995), named one of seven outstanding academic books of 1994 by Library Choice Journal; received the 1994 Woodrow Wilson prize for the best book published in the U. S. on government, politics, or international affairs; won the D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best Scholarly on Congress (1994-1995); and was,” the co-winner of the V.O Key Award for the best book published on Southern politics. Black Faces was cited by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy in Johnson v. DeGrandy, 512 U.S. 997 (1994) and by Justice Sandra Day O’ Connor in Georgia V. Ashcroft, 539 U.S.___ (2003).
Dr. Swain’s most recent books include The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and its edited companion Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). She is editor of Race Versus Class: The New Affirmative Action Debate (University Press of America, 1996), an anthology of student essays.” (more…)
Link to her books here.
