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PRINCETON BOROUGH — The election of President Barack Obama has forced the issue of race into the forefront of American politics, yet it is unclear what the implications will be.

At a symposium held at Princeton University last week, Princeton professors debated whether his presidency would ultimately decrease racism and improve the lots of African Americans.

Since the election, many black activists have denounced Obama for failing to address racial inequalities, while Fox News and talk show radio pundits have accused Obama of black supremacy. But history professor Kevin Kruse said ignoring race might be the best strategy for Obama to take.

“In the end, President Obama’s greatest accomplishment on civil rights might be that he has no accomplishment at all,” Kruse said.

Read the full article at nj.com.

Apr 22, 2010

IN PRINT: Ignoring race may be best strategy for Obama

By Miriam Geronimus

Posted in In Print Also tagged Politics, Princeton University, race, racism Leave a comment

Professors Douglas Massey, Daphne Brooks, Jeffrey Stout, and Imani Perry discuss Obama's 2008 campaign

Princeton professors in African American Studies, history, politics, public affairs, religion and sociology weighed in on President Obama’s 2008 campaign and his success in office so far at Tuesday’s symposium, “Race, American Politics, and the Presidency of Barack Obama.” While they acknowledged the huge societal implications of his election, panelists stressed that race relations in the United States are still far from stable.

We’re not going to move into a post-racial world, but rather into a different racial world. The demographic writing is on the wall,

said Douglas Massey, professor of sociology and public affairs,

You can change political structures quickly, but it takes longer to alter racial ideologies. We’ve changed our principles as a nation, but the sentiments still linger.

Read the full story in the Princeton Packet here.

Apr 16, 2010

IN PRINT: University Panel Ponders Race and Obama Presidency

By Julia Bumke

Posted in In Print Also tagged African American Studies, race, Woodrow Wilson School Leave a comment

So Obama’s approval rating has seen better days. What’s Cornel West got to offer the Commander in Chief?

Well, besides having a slick set of clean duds every morning.

Check out one of Dr. West’s more recent public appearances in this video put out by the BBC. The professor encourages President Obama to not “simply be the friendly face of the American Empire.” West even goes so far to ask him, “How deep is your love for poor and working people?” He insists, “Don’t be seduced by the elites.”

And the professor begs for democratic policies in place of technocratic ones, splicing in images of afflicted Americans. But in spite of the tough criticism, or, as he calls it, “loving pressure,” he does offer Obama a fair consolation prize: “I applaud your brilliance; I applaud your charisma.”

Feb 3, 2010

Cornel West Dishes it to Obama

By Woody Hines

Posted in In the news, Politics Also tagged Barack Obama, BBC, Cornel West Leave a comment

The New York Times recently profiled Pres. Obama’s budget director, Peter Orszag ‘91, who has been tasked with the unenviable job of overseeing the federal budget. We learn that he is a “supernerd” with grand ambitions:

Everything about the way he has interpreted his new job speaks of ambition: the policy heavyweights he has hired for the Office of Management and Budget, his efforts to persuade cabinet secretaries to let him help shape their plans, a public profile as high as that of any budget director since David A. Stockman’s polarizing tenure under Ronald Reagan a quarter-century ago.

He is also a sex symbol?

Apr 5, 2009

NY Times Profiles Orszag ‘91

By Brian No

Posted in Alumni, In the news Also tagged Alumni, Economics, New York Times, Peter Orszag, Princeton University Leave a comment

A new study devised by Talya Miron-Shatz, a Ph.D associate researcher in the Wilson School, found that financial security affects happiness more than actual money for the modern American woman.

“Even if you are making a hundred grand a year, if you are constantly worried that you are going to get fired, that you are going to lose your health insurance or that you are simply not sure you are going to ‘make it,’ you are not going to be happy,” Miron-Shatz said in a press release.

This just in. People who worry are less happy than people who don’t. The study seems to be in line with other self-evident conclusions researchers at Princeton are uncovering, at the heels of the groundbreaking discovery that men objectify naked women.

Miron-Shatz hopes to influence President Obama’s financial decisions, ushering him to focus on “strategies that create social and financial ‘safety nets’ over measures that would directly increase income.”

Mar 18, 2009

Researcher: Obama’s policies should create security, not money

By Samantha Pergadia

Posted in Goings On, In the news Also tagged Princeton, study Leave a comment

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As Barack Obama prepares to take the highest office in the United States, he has begun to build a team of accomplished and skillful men and women that will help the young president lead America in these most troubled times.

Indeed, America stands at a crossroads in history, and Obama’s star-studded team hopes to answer some of the nation’s most pressing questions. How does America weather the recession? How does the nation withdraw its troops from Iraq? Which Ivy League school is really the best?

Come on. You thought it wouldn’t be a competition?

People have already noted that Obama’s team is noticeably “Ivy-tinged”. This, of course, begs the question that burns constantly in the American public mind:

Which of the “Ancient Eight” comes out on top?

Dec 19, 2008

Change We Can… Compete For

By Will Saborio

Posted in Alumni, In the news, Politics Also tagged administration, Alan Blinder, appointment, cabinet, Clinton, EPA, Ivy League, Lisa Jackson, Peter Orszag, President Leave a comment

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