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MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Roediger, Candace Allen and Kenan Malik at the Southbank Centre.=0A= =0ATuesday 23 September 2008, 7.45pm=0A=0ABarack Obama=E2=80=99s presidenti= al nomination has put race on the US political agenda like never before. Ca= ndace Allen and David Roediger =0Adiscuss the rise of Obama and racial poli= tics both in recent history and today, looking at migration, the economy an= d recent emblematic =0Aevents such as Hurricane Katrina. Candace Allen is a= novelist, screenwriter and political campaigner, who has written widely on= the =0Achallenges of the Obama candidacy. Kenan Malik=E2=80=99s controvers= ial book Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate, opens = up =0Athe debate about genetics and multicultural societies. David Roediger= is the author of the newly published How Race Survived US History. =0AThe = event is chaired by Rana Mitter. =0A=0ABOOK NOW =0Ahttp://www.southbankcent= re.co.uk/calendar?action=3Dproduction&production=3D42808&performance=3D4280= 9=0A=0ADavid Roediger=E2=80=99s HOW RACE SURVIVED US HISTORY: FROM SETTLEME= NT AND SLAVERY TO THE OBAMA PHENOMENON is published by Verso on 20 October,= 2008.=0A=0AABOUT THE BOOK=0AIn this absorbing chronicle of the role of rac= e in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was create= d and recreated =0Afrom the 1600=E2=80=99s to the present day. From the lat= e seventeenth century =E2=80=93 the era in which Du Bois located the emerge= nce of =E2=80=9Cwhitness=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 =0Athrough the American revolut= ion and the emancipatory Civil War, to the Civil Rights movement and the em= ergence of the American empire, =0AHow Race Survived US History reveals how= race did far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national h= istory. Roediger examines =0Ahow race intersected all that was dynamic and = progressive in US history, from democracy and economic development to migra= tion and globalization. =0AExploring the evidence that the USA will become = a majority =E2=80=9Cnonwhite=E2=80=9D nation in the next fifty years, this = masterful account shows how race =0Aremains at the heart of American life i= n the twentieth century. =0A=0AABOUT THE AUTHOR=0ADavid R. Roediger is Kend= rick C. Babcock Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urban= a Champagne. He is the author of, among =0Aother books, The Wages of Whiten= ess and Towards the Abolition of Whiteness. =0A=0AAvailable at all good boo= kshops and on Amazon by 20 October, 2008.=0A=0Ahttp://www.amazon.co.uk/How-= Race-Survived-History-Revolution/dp/1844672751/ref=3Dsr_1_1?ie=3DUTF8&s=3Db= ooks&qid=3D1222090921&sr=3D8-1=0A=0Ahttp://www.amazon.com/How-Race-Survived= -History-Revolution/dp/1844672751/ref=3Dsr_1_1?ie=3DUTF8&s=3Dbooks&qid=3D12= 22091116&sr=3D8-1=0A=0A=0A