Newswise — On January 20, Barack Obama will make history as he becomes the 44th president of the United States and the nation's first African American president.
Prominent sociologists recently discussed "The Social Significance of Barack Obama" in an online exchange hosted by Contexts magazine at http://contexts.org/obama/. These scholars are available for media interviews surrounding race, politics, social movements and other issues related to the 2008 presidential election and Barack Obama's inauguration:
Gianpaolo Baiocchi is a sociology professor at Brown University with an interest in comparative political sociology. He has written on social movements, urban participation, progressive political parties, and race relations in Brazil. Baiocchi is a co-author, with Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, of the forthcoming book, Anything but Racism: How Social Scientists Limit the Significance of Race.
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is professor of sociology at Duke University. Bonilla-Silva is co-author of White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology. Joe Feagin is a sociology professor at Texas A&M University whose research interests include racism, sexism and human liberation movements. Feagin has authored many books on racism, and is a past president of the American Sociological Association.
Enid Logan is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota. Logan is currently writing a book about how Obama's presidential candidacy impacted the politics of race in the United States. She also is studying college student perspectives on race and gender in the 2008 presidential election.
Jeff Manza is a sociology professor at New York University who studies political sociology, social inequality and public policy. Manza's latest work is a forthcoming paper about inequality and American democracy.
Josh Pacewicz is completing his Ph.D. in sociology at the University of Chicago. He studies the formation of political preference in the United States.
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