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DUPONT DISCUSSES OBAMA'S MEMOIR
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Johannah Comee
Jill Dupont, assistant professor of history at the college of St.Scholastica, discusses the meanings behind President Barack Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, during her SAL Colloquium presentation.
As Dupont explains, Obama’s search to discover his African father is yoked to a desire to understand his “place” in the world. His rootlessness takes many forms: from the migratory patterns of his youth, to his growing awareness of race, to the fact he did not have “a live-in father.”
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