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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Dilemmas of Political Representation: Race and Antipoverty Activism in the Post-Civil Rights Era Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Candidate for the Tenure-Track Position in American Politics M. David ForrestPhD Candidate, University of Minnesotawill give a talk entitled "Dilemmas of Political Representation: Race and Antipoverty Activism in the Post-Civil Rights Era.""Against the backdrop of the recent financial crisis, I address a significant and recurring problem in American democracy: faced with poverty debates marked by race-coded stigmas—about, for example, “welfare queens” and “irresponsible borrowers”—how do advocacy organizations represent the poor, a racially stratified constituency? To unpack this problem, I draw on an ethnographic study of antipoverty activists, an organized group that grapples with the representation of the poor in especially outspoken and revealing ways. I specify the rationales underlying their representative efforts and explain how, in deploying these rationales, they evoke and negotiate four broadly relevant dilemmas vis-à-vis race, including dilemmas of respectability, otherness, radicalism, and moderation. And I describe the challenge that these dilemmas pose to the political representation of the poor in the post-civil rights era of American democracy." Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsor: Dean of the College; Politics Program Contact: Michelle Murray. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7693 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/