She is the Charles Howard Candler professor of African American Studies at Emory University.

[6][2] She was awarded a fellowship to study at Harvard University in 2005, where she worked on her book, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941–1960.

[7] In 2009, Anderson joined the faculty of the African American Studies department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

[9] The column was one of the most-read articles of the year, receiving thousands of comments, and Anderson was offered a book contract.

[10] The resulting book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, expanded on the history of anti-black racism and retaliation in the United States.