Dr. Julia S. Jordan-Zachery

"After Obama: Conversations on Race and Gender" will take place on Wednesday, November 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Moore Hall III on the PC campus and is open to the public.

The presentation is sponsored by the Black Studies Program, the Women's Studies Program, the Balfour Center for Multicultural Affairs, and the Department of Political Science.

According to Dr. Julia S. Jordan-Zachery, assistant professor of political science and director of the Black Studies Program at PC, the presentation will attempt to spark discussion of presidential election campaign issues in ways not addressed by the media.

"This is the start of what I hope is a series of conversations that explores the meaning of race and gender and the lived experiences of communities that are not always central in our discussions," said Jordan-Zachery.

The three panelists who will lead the conversation are faculty members at PC, Rutgers University, and Brown University:

• Dr. Anthony D. Affigne is a professor of political science at PC. A scholar-activist, his leadership in the Latino community spans three decades. Affigne is an executive board member of the Rhode Island Latino Political Action Committee and the Rhode Island Latino Civic Fund.
• Dr. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd is an assistant professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work and teaching integrate the study of politics, law, women's studies, and black studies. She is the author of Gender, Race and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
• Dr. Marion Orr is the Fred Lippitt Professor of Public Policy, Political Science and Urban Studies and the director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions at Brown. He is the author and editor of four books, including Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998 (University Press of Kansas, 1999).

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