Terry H. Anderson
Encyclopedia
Terry Howard Anderson is a professor of recent United States
history
at Texas A&M University
in College Station
, Texas
, and the author of The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action.
and Silver Bay
, Minnesota
, who since have resided in Harlingen
and Bryan
, Texas. Terry Anderson served in the United States Navy
during the Vietnam War
, probably from 1965–1967, though biographical sketches about Anderson do not give the years of his military service. In 1971, he received his Bachelor of Arts
in psychology
from the University of Minnesota
in Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1973, he obtained the Master of Arts
in history from the University of Missouri
at Columbia
, Missouri
.
In 1978, Anderson procured his Ph.D.
in history from Indiana University
in Bloomington
, Indiana
, where he had also been the assistant oral historian. In 1979, he joined the TAMU history faculty. In the 2001-02 academic year, he taught in Dublin, Ireland
, on a Fulbright Scholarship through the University of Mary Washington
in Fredericksburg
, Virginia, an institution named for the mother of George Washington
. Similarly, from 1994–1995, Anderson was a Fulbright professor at the Institute of American Studies at Northeast Normal University in Changchu, China
. In 1991, he taught in a TAMU program in Koriyama, Japan
. In the 1978-1979 academic year, Anderson was an assistant professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
in Blacksburg
.
was coined in 1965 by U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson to offer minorities special consideration and outreach in employment and education. Anderson, however, in his 2004 work The Pursuit of Fairness traces the concept of affirmative action back to the era of legal segregation
, when African American
s rebelled at being compelled to pay taxes to support public facilities otherwise closed to their utilization. After being granted civil rights
, many of the minorities found the hurdles so high to secure a foothold in education and employment that they favored an approach to compensate them for past discrimination. As time passed, those seeking affirmative action consideration were born long after segregation had been abolished and created what the critics of the program called "reverse discrimination." Anderson contends that he offers a balanced approach to the subject and avoids excessive legalese and statistics. In his preface, Anderson says that he, a blonde white male, has not been adversely impacted by affirmative action in his own education and employment. "I have no ax to grind, no agenda, just a fascination at how this contentious policy developed and changed over the years."
A reviewer, Timothy J. O'Neill of Southwestern University
in Georgetown
, Texas, says that while the account "lacks the theoretical insights of other affirmative action treatments such as Peter H. Schuck’s 'Diversity in America', Anderson compensates for this by telling a quick and readable story to a popular audience who often knows little about the history of equal rights, the women’s movement, the Great Society
, let alone the history of affirmative action."
waged by former U.S. President George W. Bush
. Anderson is a longtime critic of the Bush administration and the Axis of Evil
claim made against Iran
, Iraq
, and North Korea
. Himself a Democrat
, Anderson voiced opposition to the appointment of Condoleezza Rice
as secretary of state
in Bush's second term. In a public forum in November 2004, Anderson expressed pessimism about the ongoing war in Iraq: "Bush's war has devoured the army and American policy. The war has divided America and will drag on for years." he predicted.
Anderson's The Movement and the Sixties was released by Oxford in 1995 and in e-book form in 2001 under the shortened title, The Sixties. Anderson traces the 1960s protest movement from the lunch counter sit-in
s in Greensboro
, North Carolina
to the Indian
activists taking the town of Wounded Knee
, South Dakota
, hostage. Between those events, thirteen years apart, were the Freedom ride
s, the "free speech" protests at the University of California at Berkeley, the Selma to Montgomery march of 1965, the agitation against the Vietnam War, Black power
, the 1968 Democratic National Convention
, the hippies, and feminist rebellions. Anderson examines why so many became activists and took to the streets to make themselves heard by the otherwise "silent generation".
With Charles R. Bond, Jr.
, a member of General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers
and thereafter a major general
in the United States Air Force
, Anderson in 1984 co-authored A Flying Tiger's Diary, published by the TAMU Press and in its eighth printing by 2001. The book, the first published diary of a Flying Tigers pilot, stems from Anderson's oral history project, "From Aggies to Generals." That same year, he wrote A Guide to the Oral History Collection of Texas A&M University, based on his tenure from 1979–1988 as the university's oral historian. The first project on his plate was "Aggies to Generals," in which he interviewed TAMU graduates who served in World War II and became officers. Another collection is The History of Engineering at Texas A&M University, written with student assistance and consisting of personal interviews with active and retired engineering professors.
Still another Anderson work is The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947, published in 1981 by the University of Missouri Press. Anderson has published two articles in South Central Review, including "The Strange Career of Affirmative Action" (2005) and "1968: The End and the Beginning in the United States and Western Europe" (1999–2000). In 1986, he published "American Popular Music and the War in Vietnam," in the journal Peace and Change in a special edition on American culture and the Vietnam War. He applied his knowledge of psychology and history in the 1978 article, "Becoming Sane with Psychohistory" in The Historian
. Anderson has written more than fifty book reviews in scholarly and popular journals.
Anderson has appeared on national, state, and regional television and in many newspapers in interviews about the topics of his historical writing. In February 2002, for instance, he discussed the 1960s in the program "Power of Ideas" on Oklahoma
Public Television
. Earlier, in 2000, he appeared on "Evening Talk Show" on KERA-TV
in Dallas
to discuss the Vietnam War.
Anderson has won various faculty awards and is a 2010 Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at TAMU. He resides in Bryan.
United States
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history
History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
at Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University is a coeducational public research university located in College Station, Texas . It is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. The sixth-largest university in the United States, A&M's enrollment for Fall 2011 was over 50,000 for the first time in school...
in College Station
College Station, Texas
College Station is a city in Brazos County, Texas, situated in East Central Texas in the heart of the Brazos Valley. The city is located within the most populated region of Texas, near three of the 10 largest cities in the United States - Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, and the author of The Pursuit of Fairness: A History of Affirmative Action.
Background
Anderson is the son of Howard Everett Anderson (born ca. 1916) and the former Emily Kneip (born ca. 1918), formerly of DuluthDuluth, Minnesota
Duluth is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Saint Louis County. The fourth largest city in Minnesota, Duluth had a total population of 86,265 in the 2010 census. Duluth is also the second largest city that is located on Lake Superior after Thunder Bay, Ontario,...
and Silver Bay
Silver Bay, Minnesota
Silver Bay is a city in Lake County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,887 at the 2010 census. The city was founded on May 1, 1954 after previously being known as the Beaver Bay housing project...
, Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, who since have resided in Harlingen
Harlingen, Texas
Harlingen is a city in Cameron County in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, United States, about from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The city covers more than , and is the second largest city in Cameron County and the sixth largest in the Rio Grande Valley...
and Bryan
Bryan, Texas
Bryan is a city in Brazos County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 76,201. It is the county seat of Brazos County and is located in the heart of the Brazos Valley . It shares its border with the city of College Station, which lies to its south...
, Texas. Terry Anderson served in the United States Navy
United States Navy
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during the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
, probably from 1965–1967, though biographical sketches about Anderson do not give the years of his military service. In 1971, he received his Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
from the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
in Minneapolis and St. Paul. In 1973, he obtained the Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in history from the University of Missouri
University of Missouri
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at Columbia
Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is the fifth-largest city in Missouri, and the largest city in Mid-Missouri. With a population of 108,500 as of the 2010 Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 164,283 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the...
, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
.
In 1978, Anderson procured his Ph.D.
Ph.D.
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in history from Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
in Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....
, Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
, where he had also been the assistant oral historian. In 1979, he joined the TAMU history faculty. In the 2001-02 academic year, he taught in Dublin, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, on a Fulbright Scholarship through the University of Mary Washington
University of Mary Washington
The University of Mary Washington is a public, coeducational liberal arts college located in the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA. Founded in 1908 by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a normal school, during much of the twentieth century it was part of the University of Virginia, until...
in Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Fredericksburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia located south of Washington, D.C., and north of Richmond. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 24,286...
, Virginia, an institution named for the mother of George Washington
George Washington
George Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
. Similarly, from 1994–1995, Anderson was a Fulbright professor at the Institute of American Studies at Northeast Normal University in Changchu, China
China
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. In 1991, he taught in a TAMU program in Koriyama, Japan
Japan
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. In the 1978-1979 academic year, Anderson was an assistant professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, popularly known as Virginia Tech , is a public land-grant university with the main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia with other research and educational centers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and internationally.Founded in...
in Blacksburg
Blacksburg, Virginia
Blacksburg is an incorporated town located in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which...
.
Affirmative action study
The term affirmative actionAffirmative action
Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin" into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group, usually as a means to counter the effects of a history of discrimination.-Origins:The term...
was coined in 1965 by U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson to offer minorities special consideration and outreach in employment and education. Anderson, however, in his 2004 work The Pursuit of Fairness traces the concept of affirmative action back to the era of legal segregation
Racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, included the racial segregation or hypersegregation of facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines...
, when African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
s rebelled at being compelled to pay taxes to support public facilities otherwise closed to their utilization. After being granted civil rights
Civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from unwarranted infringement by governments and private organizations, and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression.Civil rights include...
, many of the minorities found the hurdles so high to secure a foothold in education and employment that they favored an approach to compensate them for past discrimination. As time passed, those seeking affirmative action consideration were born long after segregation had been abolished and created what the critics of the program called "reverse discrimination." Anderson contends that he offers a balanced approach to the subject and avoids excessive legalese and statistics. In his preface, Anderson says that he, a blonde white male, has not been adversely impacted by affirmative action in his own education and employment. "I have no ax to grind, no agenda, just a fascination at how this contentious policy developed and changed over the years."
A reviewer, Timothy J. O'Neill of Southwestern University
Southwestern University
Southwestern University is a private, four-year, undergraduate, liberal arts college located in Georgetown, Texas, USA. Founded in 1840, Southwestern is the oldest university in Texas. The school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church although the curriculum is nonsectarian...
in Georgetown
Georgetown, Texas
Georgetown is a city and also the county seat of Williamson County, Texas, United States with a population of 47,400 at the 2010 census. Southwestern University, founded in 1840, is the oldest university in Texas and is located in Georgetown, about 1/2 mile east of the historic square...
, Texas, says that while the account "lacks the theoretical insights of other affirmative action treatments such as Peter H. Schuck’s 'Diversity in America', Anderson compensates for this by telling a quick and readable story to a popular audience who often knows little about the history of equal rights, the women’s movement, the Great Society
Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States promoted by President Lyndon B. Johnson and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s. Two main goals of the Great Society social reforms were the elimination of poverty and racial injustice...
, let alone the history of affirmative action."
Other Anderson works
In 2011, Oxford University Press will publish Anderson's forthcoming book, Bush's War: Iraq, referring to the war on terrorismWar on Terrorism
The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
waged by former U.S. President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
. Anderson is a longtime critic of the Bush administration and the Axis of Evil
Axis of evil
"Axis of evil" is a term initially used by the former United States President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002 and often repeated throughout his presidency, describing governments that he accused of helping terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction...
claim made against Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
, Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
, and North Korea
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...
. Himself a Democrat
Democratic Party (United States)
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, Anderson voiced opposition to the appointment of Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush...
as secretary of state
United States Secretary of State
The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...
in Bush's second term. In a public forum in November 2004, Anderson expressed pessimism about the ongoing war in Iraq: "Bush's war has devoured the army and American policy. The war has divided America and will drag on for years." he predicted.
Anderson's The Movement and the Sixties was released by Oxford in 1995 and in e-book form in 2001 under the shortened title, The Sixties. Anderson traces the 1960s protest movement from the lunch counter sit-in
Sit-in
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of protest that involves occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment.-Process:In a sit-in, protesters remain until they are evicted, usually by force, or arrested, or until their requests have been met...
s in Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
to the Indian
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
activists taking the town of Wounded Knee
Wounded Knee, South Dakota
Wounded Knee is a census-designated place in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 382 at the 2010 census....
, South Dakota
South Dakota
South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
, hostage. Between those events, thirteen years apart, were the Freedom ride
Freedom ride
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decisions Boynton v. Virginia and Morgan v. Virginia...
s, the "free speech" protests at the University of California at Berkeley, the Selma to Montgomery march of 1965, the agitation against the Vietnam War, Black power
Black Power
Black Power is a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies. It is used in the movement among people of Black African descent throughout the world, though primarily by African Americans in the United States...
, the 1968 Democratic National Convention
1968 Democratic National Convention
The 1968 Democratic National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois, from August 26 to August 29, 1968. Because Democratic President Lyndon Johnson had announced he would not seek a second term, the purpose of the convention was to...
, the hippies, and feminist rebellions. Anderson examines why so many became activists and took to the streets to make themselves heard by the otherwise "silent generation".
With Charles R. Bond, Jr.
Charles Bond (pilot)
Charles Rankin Bond, Jr. was an American pilot and U.S. Air Force officer. He served with the Flying Tigers in Burma and China during World War II. He was shot down twice and was credited with shooting down nine-and-a-half Japanese airplanes. He later served in the Soviet Union as an aide and...
, a member of General Claire Chennault's Flying Tigers
Flying Tigers
The 1st American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force in 1941–1942, famously nicknamed the Flying Tigers, was composed of pilots from the United States Army , Navy , and Marine Corps , recruited under presidential sanction and commanded by Claire Lee Chennault. The ground crew and headquarters...
and thereafter a major general
Major General
Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...
in the United States Air Force
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
, Anderson in 1984 co-authored A Flying Tiger's Diary, published by the TAMU Press and in its eighth printing by 2001. The book, the first published diary of a Flying Tigers pilot, stems from Anderson's oral history project, "From Aggies to Generals." That same year, he wrote A Guide to the Oral History Collection of Texas A&M University, based on his tenure from 1979–1988 as the university's oral historian. The first project on his plate was "Aggies to Generals," in which he interviewed TAMU graduates who served in World War II and became officers. Another collection is The History of Engineering at Texas A&M University, written with student assistance and consisting of personal interviews with active and retired engineering professors.
Still another Anderson work is The United States, Great Britain, and the Cold War, 1944-1947, published in 1981 by the University of Missouri Press. Anderson has published two articles in South Central Review, including "The Strange Career of Affirmative Action" (2005) and "1968: The End and the Beginning in the United States and Western Europe" (1999–2000). In 1986, he published "American Popular Music and the War in Vietnam," in the journal Peace and Change in a special edition on American culture and the Vietnam War. He applied his knowledge of psychology and history in the 1978 article, "Becoming Sane with Psychohistory" in The Historian
The Historian
The Historian interweaves the history and folklore of Vlad Ţepeş, a 15th-century prince of Wallachia known as "Vlad the Impaler", and his fictional equivalent Count Dracula together with the story of Paul, a professor; his 16-year-old daughter; and their quest for Vlad's tomb...
. Anderson has written more than fifty book reviews in scholarly and popular journals.
Anderson has appeared on national, state, and regional television and in many newspapers in interviews about the topics of his historical writing. In February 2002, for instance, he discussed the 1960s in the program "Power of Ideas" on Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
Public Television
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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. Earlier, in 2000, he appeared on "Evening Talk Show" on KERA-TV
KERA-TV
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in Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
to discuss the Vietnam War.
Anderson has won various faculty awards and is a 2010 Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at TAMU. He resides in Bryan.