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Anti-Racist Activist and Author to Address Race in the Democratic Primary
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POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism) | 04.08.2008
A week before the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, author, activist and facilitator of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism) Ewuare X. Osayande will give a special presentation on race, patriotism and the Democratic presidential campaign. He will address the ways race has been used to undermine the historic candidacy of Barack Obama. He will also address how the reality of racism continues to trouble the experience of democracy in the U.S.
Contact: Ewuare Osayande
267-391-5874
Anti-Racist Activist and Author to Address Race in the Democratic Primary
“Race to the White House: Blackness, Patriotism and Obama”
PHILADELPHIA – Exactly one week before the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary, cofounding director of POWER (People Organized Working to Eradicate Racism) Ewuare X. Osayande, an award-winning author, will give a special presentation on race, patriotism and the Democratic primary. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15th at 6:30 pm at Robin’s Bookstore located at 108 South 13th Street in Philadelphia, PA. The presentation is free and open to the public.
“From the very outset, Barack Obama’s campaign has been dogged by charges that he is unpatriotic and anti-American,” says Osayande, author of several books including Black Anti-Ballistic Missives: Resisting War/Resisting Racism. “Obama has gone from being considered ‘not Black enough’ to ‘too Black’ by pundits from all sides of the political spectrum.” According to Osayande, the attack on Obama’s patriotism is part of a pattern of charges levied against Black leaders throughout American history. Osayande’s speech will examine the ways Obama’s race has been used to undermine his historic candidacy for President of the United States. Additionally, he will discuss how the reality of racism continues to impact the experience of democracy in the U.S.
Ewuare Osayande’s latest book is entitled Misogyny and the Emcee: Sex, Race and Hip Hop. He is also a contributor to the recent anthology What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race and the State of the Nation. Osayande is the 2006 recipient of the Vanguard Writer’s Award conferred by the Walt Whitman Center in Camden, NJ. Dr. Wayne Glasker, Chairperson of the African American Studies Program at Rutgers University has called Ewuare Osayande's work "brilliant and compelling. His criticism is passionate and captures the anguish and urgency of the contemporary crisis in African American life. A powerful voice in the tradition of David Walker, Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X."
For more information about Ewuare Osayande visit his website at www.osayande.org. For more information about Robin’s Bookstore call 215-735-9600.
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