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DESCRIPTION:.\n\nA SEMINAR ON THE CURRENT STRUCTURE OF RACE AND RACIALIZATION AND ITS 
 RELATION TO OBAMA'S ELECTION\n \n\n- by Steve Martinot\n\n(author of The 
 Rules of Racialization and other books) \n\n \nTuesday, March 17, 2009, 
 7:30pm \n\n\nBerkeley Unitarian Fellowship Hall\n\nCedar St. & Bonita Ave., 
 Berkeley\n\nBenjy Room, 2nd floor (upstairs in back\n\noff the playground 
 courtyard on Bonita 
 Ave.)\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nDoes Obama's 
 election put a real dent in white supremacy \nor is it only symbolic?\n 
 \nHow to develop an anti-racist politics with Obama in the White 
 House.\n\nA course in sensitivity training for understanding the new 
 presidency. \n ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nThis 
 seminar (including discussion) will synthesize four topics: \n\n1) the 
 structures of racialization in the US, and what the election\nof Obama 
 means for them; \n\n2) the relation of the two party system to the 
 racialization of US\nsociety; \n\n3) what Obama can and cannot do, and why; 
 \n\n4) the structure of the disconnect between political representation in 
 the US and the citizens it pretends to represent. \n\n\nWe shall try to 
 understand, in the context of Obama's election, how the structures of 
 racialization have conditioned national politics on an institutional as 
 well as a daily level. And it will try to understand Obama's election in 
 the context of the structures of racialization - that is, how those 
 structures frame the way we think about politics. \n\n\nThe meetings began 
 on March 3. They will continue on March 17, 2009, and run for 3 months, 
 meeting every two weeks, at 7:30, on Tuesday evening, at the Berkeley 
 Unitarian Fellowship Hall.\n\n \nThe seminar will be conducted as follows. 
 Steve Martinot will give a brief presentation on a pre-announced topic, 
 combining former researches with analyses of events of the moment, and then 
 the space will be opened for discussion. There may be reading assigned, but 
 it will be small. \n\nParticipants will be expected to read the newspaper, 
 and/or some alternate press. (Coming in with reports from corporate TV news 
 as if they were real will get you thrown out of the room.) 
 \n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nThose interested, please contact either 
 \nCynthia  or \nSteve  \nOr just show up at the first meetings. 
 \n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n\nSteve Martinot 
 writings\n\nhttp://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~marto/\n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n 
 \n\nSponsered by the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian 
 Universalists:\nSocial Justice Committee.\n\n\n(free and open to the 
 public: all are welcome)\n\n-\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/11/18576354.php
SUMMARY:The Current Structure of Race & Racialization & It's Relation to Obama's Election‏
LOCATION:Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship Hall\nCedar St. & Bonita Ave.(1 block east of 
 MLK Way) \nBerkeley\n\nBenjy Room (2nd floor - upstairs in back\noff the 
 playground courtyard on Bonita Ave.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/03/11/18576354.php
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