{"id":2597,"date":"2009-10-28T19:14:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T19:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:37:17","slug":"the-sociological-significance-of-president-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=2597","title":{"rendered":"The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/cs\/root\/leftnav\/meetings\/the_sociological_significance_of_president_barack_obama\" target=\"_blank\">The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\" target=\"_blank\">The American Sociological Association<br \/>\n<\/a>Mini-Symposium<br \/>\nSan Francisco, California<br \/>\n2009-08-08 through 2009-08-09<\/p>\n<p>The historic campaign and election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barak_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> constitutes a compelling and timely context for examining the program theme. In response, the 2009 ASA Program Committee and ASA President Patricia Hill Collins have organized a mini-symposium, a meeting within the general meeting, which explores how the historic election of Barack Obama might signal a new politics of community in action. The mini-symposium consists of a cluster of sessions that are scheduled throughout the meetings that will examine how the 2008 presidential election engages the conference theme <em>The New Politics of Community<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Plenary Session. Why Obama Won (and What that Says About Democracy and Change in America)<\/li>\n<li>Presidential Panel. A Defining Moment? Youth, Power and the Obama Phenomenon<\/li>\n<li>Presidential Panel. Through the Lens of Gender, Race, Sexuality and Class: The Obama Family and the American Dream<\/li>\n<li>Thematic Session. Understanding Democratic Renewal: The Movement to Elect Barack Obama<\/li>\n<li>Thematic Session. The Future of Community Organizing During an Obama Presidency<\/li>\n<li>Thematic Session. Asian-American Movements, Identities, and Politics: A New Racial Project in the Obama Years?<\/li>\n<li>Professional Workshop. The Next Generation of MFP Scholarship in Service to Social Justice<\/li>\n<li>Open Forum. Does the Obama Administration Need a Social Science Scholars Council?: A Public Forum<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Read the entire description <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/cs\/root\/leftnav\/meetings\/the_sociological_significance_of_president_barack_obama\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sociological Significance of President Barack Obama The American Sociological Association Mini-Symposium San Francisco, California 2009-08-08 through 2009-08-09 The historic campaign and election of Barack Obama constitutes a compelling and timely context for examining the program theme. In response, the 2009 ASA Program Committee and ASA President Patricia Hill Collins have organized a mini-symposium, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,13,6,394,20],"tags":[821],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-liveevents","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-american-sociological-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}