Carol Swain PhD
Best-Selling Author, Political Commentator, Public Speaker, Entrepreneur, and former Tenured Professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities.
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Carol Swain PhD
Biography
Born into abject poverty in rural Virginia, Dr. Carol Swain earned five degrees and obtained early tenure at Princeton and full professorship at Vanderbilt where she was professor of political science and a professor of law. Today she is a sought-after cable news contributor, prominent national speaker, and best-selling author.
In addition to three Presidential appointments, Carol is a former Distinguished Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, having also served on the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 1776 Commission.
An award-winning political scientist cited three times by the U.S. Supreme Court, she has authored or edited 12 published books and numerous opinion pieces for the major national publications. These include The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, New York Times, USA Today and the Epoch Times.
Her television appearances include NBC News, Inside Edition, CNN, BBC Radio and TV, CSPAN, ABC’s Headline News, Fox News, Newsmax and more.
She is the founder and CEO of Carol Swain Enterprises, REAL Unity Training Solutions, Your Life Story for Descendants, and her non-profit, Be The People. She is also a Senior Fellow for the Institute for Faith and Culture.
Carol is a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Dr. Carol Swain
From Poverty to Prosperity
From high school dropout to teenage wife and mother to highly accomplished university professor and public intellectual, Dr. Carol Swain shares her inspiring story. She tells how education, hard work, and faith brought her from poverty and humble beginnings in Virginia to being a nationally recognized political commentator and best-selling author. Her story will inspire you and illustrates how anyone can live the American Dream no matter their race, gender, or background.
Critical Race Theory
The Civil Rights Issue of our Time
Dr. Swain is an expert on CRT and co-authored the best-selling book, Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory Is Burning Down the House. She exposes the true nature of Critical Race Theory and offers concrete solutions for taking back the country's stolen institutions. Dr. Swain describes CRT in theory and practice, accounting for its origins and weaponization within American schools and workplaces. She also explains how this ideology threatens traditional American values and legal doctrines, including civil rights.
Why Diversity Training is All Wrong
Isn’t “diversity training” supposed to be a good thing? Then why is the training that many companies and educational systems currently use dividing us? Dr. Swain offers her wisdom and insight on why most current training is not getting the desired results and offers practical ways to bring greater harmony to your team by respecting everyone’s civil rights and equality under the law. The goal is to encourage Americans to rediscover and re-embrace our national motto: E pluribus unum (Out of many, one). Dr. Swain is the founder of Unity Training Solutions, a company devoted to helping you achieve your goals by providing viable alternatives to the counterproductive critical race and gender theories that divide Americans and disrupt institutions.
Tackling Today’s Culture Issues from the Teachings of Jesus
Consulting Jesus on how to find eternal life is common. But what relevance do Jesus’ teachings have for contemporary life? When it comes to core worldview topics such as human life, marriage, and race, should it be Christ or culture that decides our convictions? Can we really find intelligent answers to contemporary quandaries in the ancient teachings of Jesus? In In her latest book, Countercultural Living: What Jesus Has To Say About Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism Countercultural Living, Dr. Swain confronts cultural consensus with the countercultural and surprisingly compelling teachings of Jesus.
If you want to find clarity on tough questions and to build your convictions on Jesus’ teachings, you will value Swain’s insightful, practical, and, at times, autobiographical survey of these important topics from a biblical perspective.
Carol Swain PhD
Featured Books
Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down the House
by Carol Swain PhD
Countercultural Living: What Jesus Has to Say About Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism
by Carol Swain PhD
Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise
by Carol Swain PhD
Abduction: How Liberalism Steals Our Children's Hearts And Minds
by Carol Swain PhD
The Adversity of Diversity
by Carol Swain PhD
When the US Supreme Court announced its landmark 6-3 decision to take race out of the equation for college and university admissions, it did more than just bring affirmative action in higher education to a screeching halt. It also fired a warning shot across the bow of businesses and governmental agencies across America: the days for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment have an expiration date. In The Adversity of Diversity, award-winning political scientist Carol M. Swain and collaborator Mike Towle offer an insightful look at DEI's inception and evolution into a billion-dollar industry. Swain and Towle explain why DEI's days are numbered, and how we as a people can move beyond divisiveness toward the unity promised by our nation's motto, E Pluribus Unum, "out of many, one."
From Alan Dershowitz's foreword: On the heels of the Supreme Court decision declaring race-based affirmative action in higher education unconstitutional, Swain and Towle's The Adversity of Diversity puts forth a compelling case for questioning the entire diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) industry that has departed from any integrationist goals. It has become an aggressive force that takes organizations away from their core missions and often transforms them into divisive and disruptive institutions that openly violate the rights of members of disfavored groups. Swain's recommended solution of Real Unity Training Solutions entails a return to core American principles that embrace nondiscrimination and equal opportunity in a meritocratic system that recognizes individual rather than group rights.
I believe that the demise of race-based affirmative action in college admissions should be accompanied by the elimination of most other nonmeritocratic criteria, such as legacy status, athletics, geography, and other nonacademic preferences. We should truly level the playing field by eliminating practices that create division while taking us further from (Dr. Martin Luther) King's vision and the constitutional protections we should welcome. In this book, Swain shares her own affirmative action journey and the factors that enabled her to achieve the American dream. She and her co-author have not given up on the nation's motto of E Pluribus Unum-out of many, one. Her vision for unity rather than what has become divisive training is one we can and should explore. One need not agree with all their observations and proposals to benefit from their wisdom
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