Dissertation By President Obama's Mother To Be Published By Duke University Press
Ken Wissoker, Editorial Director of Duke University Press, In a statement announcing the book’s release, said "Ms. Dunham's global perspective and obvious respect for other people’s intelligence and self-direction is a model we all can learn from. Her children clearly have."
The 368-page book was edited by two anthropologists, Alice G. Dewey, Ms. Dunham's graduate adviser, and Nancy I. Cooper, a graduate school colleague.
Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Obama's half-sister, will write the foreword of this book. She hoped her mother's work "will be read by those who come to love the particularities of its world and who also see the myriad potential application of its ideas and methods to other worlds."
Ms. Dunham died in 1995. When his mother began her field work in Java, Mr. Obama was already in a high school, and he decided not to participate to get to Indonesia.
As a child, Mr. Obama had lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather, Lolo Soetoro. In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," he wrote "I doubted what Indonesia now had to offer and wearied of being new all over again."
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