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Wednesday January 21, 2009
4:30-6:00 p.m.
Ford Auditorium
Case Western Reserve University
The Case Center for Policy Studies is proud to collaborate with the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence, and the Share the Vision Committee to present a forum on the question of what Barack Obama’s election says about racial politics. Have we reached the point where people really are judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character? To answer this question we need to consider both black political movements and white political attitudes.
Our panel of distinguished guests will include Peniel Joseph, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brandeis University and Martin Gilens, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science at Princeton University.
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Additional Information About Our Panel…
Martin Gilens’ current research projects examine (1) the responsiveness of federal government policy to the preferences of different segments of the American public; (2) historical changes in media coverage of presidential elections and the impact of those changes on the public’s knowledge and interest in presidential candidates and campaigns; and (3) the role of (mis)information and heuristic shortcuts in the formation of the American public’s policy preferences.
Professor Gilens is the author of Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (University of Chicago Press), and has published on media, race, gender, and welfare politics in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, and the Berkeley Journal of Sociology. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California Berkeley, and taught at Yale University and UCLA before joining the faculty at Princeton. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.
Peniel E. Joseph is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the leading young scholars of African American history. Although Joseph’s formal expertise includes the Black Radical Tradition, Pan-Africanism, Black Social Movements, and African American feminism, he is currently embarking on a re-evaluation of the Black Power Movement. Professor Joseph teaches in the Dept. of African and Afro-American Studies at Brandeis University. Joseph is the founder of a growing subfield of historical and Africana Studies scholarship that he has named “Black Power Studies.” This new scholarship, which connects grassroots activism to national struggles for black self-determination and international African independence movements, is actively rewriting postwar African American history. On this score, Joseph has published over a dozen articles and book chapters related to Black Power (and black radicalism in general) since earning his doctorate in American history at Temple University in 2000 and has been a prolific book reviewer, essayist, and commentator on issues related to African American social, political, intellectual, and cultural history.