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Carol M. Swain Biography

Carol M. Swain is one of the most popular and richest Political Scientist who was born on March 7, 1954 in Bedford, Virginia, United States. Carol Miller Swain, the youngest of twelve children, was born in Bedford, Virginia on March 7, 1954. Her mother and father both dropped out of school in third grade, while her mother was unable to finish high school. Her stepfather used physical abuse on Dorothy Henderson, her mother with infantile paralysis. Swain was raised in poverty in a shack with no running water and shared two beds with her 11 siblings. She was the second child of twelve. Swain didn’t have shoes, so she missed school when it snowed. She dropped out of ninth grade and did not complete high school. In the 1960s, she moved to Roanoke to live with her family. She appealed to a judge for a transfer to a foster care home. Swain lived in a trailer park with her grandmother.

In 1993, Harvard University Press published her first academic book, Black Faces and Black Interests: The Representation Of African Americans in Congress. Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy, both Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, cited the book. It won the D.B. It was the recipient of the D.B.

Swain received tenure as an associate professor of politics and public policy at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2017, she taught political science and law at Vanderbilt University. She retired from her post at Vanderbilt in 2017.

In 2002, Swain argued against reparations for American descendants of African slaves during an event at Delaware State University, a historically black university. However, in 2005, she wrote an op ed in The Washington Post calling for the George W. Bush to offer a formal apology to American citizens of African descent for the institution of slavery. She also wrote a policy document about it for the Heartland Institute. When the apology happened in June 2009, during the presidency of Barack Obama, she called it “meaningless.” She expressed disappointment that it did not happen under President George W. Bush, when the Republicans were in power, arguing that “It would have shed that racist scab on the party.”

Swain divorced in 1975. She earned a GED, worked as a cashier for McDonald’s, a salesperson at the door, and as an assistant at a retirement home. Virginia Western Community College gave her an associate’s degree. She earned a magnacum laude B.A. She earned a B.A. in criminal justice at Roanoke College, and a master’s in political science at Virginia Tech. As an undergraduate at Roanoke College she established a scholarship fund to support black students. It had an endowment in 2002 of $350,000. In 1989, she received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in political science. She received a Master in Legal Studies degree from Yale Law School in 2000.

NameCarol M. Swain
First NameCarol
Last NameSwain
OccupationPolitical Scientist
BirthdayMarch 7
Birth Year1954
Place of BirthBedford
Home TownVirginia
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignPisces
Full/Birth Name
ParentsDorothy Henderson
SiblingsNot Available
SpouseNot Known
Children(s)2 sons; 1 daughter

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 2003, she edited Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism with Princeton University Professor Russell K. Nieli. It was reviewed in Rhetoric and Public Affairs and The Journal of Southern History. The book contains telephone interviews with ten people active in the white nationalist movement; the interviews were edited by the interviewees, and Stephanie Shanks-Meile, reviewing the book for Contemporary Sociology, criticized the methodology of the book (“the primary data analysis is weak”) and the lack of interviews with rank-and-file members: “there is still no real substitution for field research, making Swain and Nieli’s ten telephone interviews with ‘leaders’ too superficial to base an entire study on white nationalism”.

Carol M. Swain Net Worth

Carol M. Swain is one of the richest Political Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carol M. Swain's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carol Miller Swain, born March 7, 1954, is an American conservative TV analyst. She was also a Vanderbilt University professor of political science and law. She is also the editor and author of many books. Two associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States have cited her scholarly work. Her interests include race relations and immigration, representation, evangelical politics and the United States Constitution.

She was a Jehovah’s Witness during this time. According to Nashville Scene, Swain was a young girl who became a Jehovah’s Witness. Many in the church believed the end of the world would come in 1975. Swain was one of them. …” Swain was baptized in the Pentecostal faith in 1998 after receiving an “internal voice” while she thought she was dying in a hospital. Swain was a Citizen’s Committee Member for the 43rd Annual Tennessee Prayer Breakfast in 2017 and a board member for Nashville Youth for Christ. She is a Southern Baptist.

In 1996, she edited a collection of essays entitled Race Versus Class: The New Affirmative Action Debate.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomePolitical Scientist
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

In October 2009, the SPLC mentioned Swain in a critique of A Conversation About Race, a documentary directed by Craig Bodeker that contended that racism was not an issue in America. The SPLC stated that the film had been well-received among white supremacist organizations, and the film’s director had granted interviews to white supremacist publications to promote the film. The SPLC noted that Swain was one of the few mainstream figures who had endorsed the film. Swain stated that the content of the film could be effectively used in social science classes to encourage debate. Swain called the SPLC article a smear, and contended that the SPLC was retaliating against her because she had previously criticized the organization in a blog entry on the Huffington Post.

In 2011, she released Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America’s Faith and Promise, published by Thomas Nelson. She explained she wrote the book as a response to “the ungodly direction” of the United States.

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Her third book, published in 2002, was The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration, which one reviewer described as “a gallant attempt to locate the middle ground of American values and social discourse toward resolving contemporary racial problems, however, complex social issues remain unresolved and out of focus”. In the foreword, she says, “[I] have reserved for myself the right to explore hunches and draw upon personal intuitions as I interpret and evaluate data”, a methodology criticized by political scientist Marc Q. Sawyer, who comments, “While I laud this break with convention, frequently these hunches either lead to faulty conclusions or foreclose the opportunity for consideration of alternative explanations in this work. One can disagree with Swain’s normative vision, but when that vision triumphs over social scientific evidence and fails to live up to its claims for social justice, it is legitimate to critique that vision itself”. Sawyer contends Swain ignores important African-American institutions and the variety in thought among African-American scholars, that she misses and misinterprets statistical information, and that, in the end, “despite claims of a normative focus, Swain is largely on the side of the white nationalists”, apologizing for “racist beliefs and practices”.

Between October 2012 and July 2014, she was the host of Be the People, a weekly television talk which used paid programming time to air on Sundays on WSMV-TV and WZTV in the Nashville area.

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Swain called the re-election of President Barack Obama in 2012, “a very scary situation”. In April 2012, she argued that civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton had used the shooting of Trayvon Martin for political gains in order to increase voter registration for the Democratic Party. She argued that black-on-white crimes are underreported in the media, and criticized Martin’s mother for failing to address the issues of black-on-black crime rates, unemployment, and abortion in black communities.

Facts & Trivia

Carol Ranked on the list of most popular Political Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Carol M. Swain celebrates birthday on March 7 of every year.

In 2013, when she was asked if Jesus was black or white, she responded that the issue was “irrelevant.” She added, “Whether He’s white, black, Hispanic, whatever you want to call Him, what’s important is that people find meaning in His life.”

What happened to Carol Swain?

Professional career. Swain received tenure as an associate professor of politics and public policy at Princeton University. From 1999 to 2017, she taught political science and law at Vanderbilt University. She retired from her post at Vanderbilt in 2017.

How old is Carol Swain?

68 years (March 7, 1954)

Was Carol Swain suspended from Vanderbilt?

In 2015, Swain wrote an opinion piece for The Tennesseean entitled “Charlie Hebdo attacks prove critics were right about Islam.” In response, Vanderbilt students authored a petition for her temporary suspension from the faculty because she had “become synonymous with bigotry, intolerance, and unprofessionalism.” Other …

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