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Race and the Race for the Presidency


April 18, 2013

An event sponsored by the GW School of Media and Public Affairs and Open Society Foundations' Campaign for Black Male Achievement With additional support from the GW Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion 1:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.





Key scholars, experts and journalists will use the 2012 campaign as a backdrop to explore the importance of race in modern American politics, the role and coverage of race in the 2012 election and the impact of race issues on future campaigns.

With a keynote address by Donna Brazile, veteran political strategist and Vice Chair of Voter Registration and Participation at the National Democratic Committee Featuring two discussions:

Panel 1: How campaigns and media deal with race


Moderator: Frank Sesno, Director, GW School of Media and Public Affairs

Panelists: Eric Deggans, TV/Media Critic Tampa Bay Times and author of Race Baiter
Jim Margolis, Senior Advisor, Obama for America (2008 & 2012)
Charlton McIlwain, Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Andrew Rojecki , Associate Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago



Panel 2: The role race played in shaping the 2012 vote


Moderator:Robert Entman, J.B. and M.C. Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs, GW School of Media and Public Affairs

Panelists: Carole Bell, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
Thomas Edsall, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism, Columbia University
Seth Goldman, George Gerbner Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
John Sides, Associate Professor of Political Science, George Washington University