Race representation in this year’s Common Book |
Race representation in this year’s Common Book
University of Washington News Laboratory
Department of Communication
December 2009
Kaetlyn Cordingley
UW News Lab
Each year, First Year Programs chooses a book as a means to bind the incoming freshman class together. This year’s book was Barack Obama’s “Dreams from My Father.”
Coincidentally, on the same evening that President Obama addressed a sea of gray-clad cadets at Westpoint, three members of the UW faculty discussed Obama’s candor and his struggles with multiraciality in his autobiography with hundreds of UW freshmen who had read the book.
The book demands introspection from its readers and frames the “freshman experience” in a whole new way, said University of Washington faculty member Ralina Joseph Dec. 1.
Panelists were Communication Professor Dr. Joseph and Drs. Luis Fraga and Christopher Parker, of the Political Science Department.
The professors spoke candidly about their own experiences with multiculturalism and minority identification…
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