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Lecture with Rachel Swarns
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| "In Their Footsteps: Michelle Obama's Ancestral Pathways to the White House" |
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Monday November 26, 2012
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8:00 p.m. |
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Diamond
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Lecture |
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| Event Description: |
Visit by New York Times Journalist Rachel Swarns who is the author of American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama. The book explores the complex architecture of family heritage by focusing on all of he documentable ancestors of the four grandparents of Mrs. Obama who eventually arrived in Chicago as part of the Great Migration.
There will be a book signing after the talk and the public is eagerly and enthusiastically invited.
In addition to the evening talk, there will be a student/faculty/staff panel discussion at 4:00 PM that focuses on the book. Three classes are reading the book the members of these classes will form the critical mass for discussion along with interested faculty and staff. That discussion is aimed at being intergenerational. That panel discussion will take place in Lovejoy 100.
"In Their Footsteps: Michelle Obama's Ancestral Pathways to the White House"
Rachel L. Swarns has been a reporter for the New York Times since 1995.
She has written about domestic policy and national politics, reporting on
immigration, the presidential campaigns of 2004 and 2008, and First Lady
Michelle Obama and her role in the Obama White House. She has also worked
overseas for the New York Times, reporting from Russia, Cuba, and southern
Africa, where she served as the Johannesburg bureau chief. She lives in
Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children. |
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