On his blog earlier this week, Ian Lind offered interesting background on the mother of presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama:
I have been wondering about Barack Obama’s mother ever since I heard that she graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Ph.D. in anthropology…Contrary to the rightwing screeds on the internet, nothing about Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro is text book…
The post is written by Dr. Meda Chesney-Lind, and is worth reading. Note, too, the upcoming seminar in September, part of the Women’s Studies Colloquium Series at the University.