Obama's Mother's Dissertation Set for Release
November 30, 2009 02:37 PM ET

[...]Duke University Press is set to release the doctoral dissertation of Ann Dunham—the president's mother, who died 14 years ago—at the American Anthropological Association conference in Philadelphia. After unveiling Dunham's writings on life in Indonesia, the university press will hold a session devoted to Dunham's life and work, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

The dissertation, which will be published under the title Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia, "still definitely has a lot of relevance," Laura Sell, a Duke University Press publicist, told the Duke Chronicle in May. "We sent it out to a lot of pretty high-powered reviewers, who all said it's a worthy work of scholarship and people can learn a lot from it."

Dunham received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Hawaii in 1992, but she had worked and studied in the field for more than a decade before that. You can read a fantastic and detailed profile of Dunham's life and influence on her son.

Hot Type: Obama's Mother's Dissertation Gets Star Treatment From Duke U. Press
By Jennifer Howard

The scholarly book getting the most buzz at the American Anthropological Association's annual conference this week is likely to be a doctoral dissertation published 15 years after its author's death. Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia is by S. Ann Dunham, the mother of President Obama, a connection noted on the book's front cover. The publisher, Duke University Press, will unveil the book on December 3 at the conference, to be followed by a special session devoted to Dunham and her life and work.

I spoke with Dunham's daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is President Obama's half-sister, about their mother's life and work and how the dissertation made it from her closet to print. Ms. Soetoro-Ng wrote a foreword to the book. She and Mr. Obama spent some time in Indonesia as children while Dunham worked as a development and microcredit consultant and did fieldwork for the dissertation.

The book runs about 300 pages and focuses on a blacksmithing village called Kajar, in the province of Yogyakarta on the island of Java. The work has been whittled down significantly from its original form, which ran more than a thousand pages and investigated the socioeconomics of several village-based handicrafts, including batik, pottery, and the making of puppets used in shadow theater.

Ms. Soetoro-Ng told me her mother was "a real romantic and a pragmatist" at the same time, interested in objects that were beautiful in their own right and also a practical means of making everyday life better. "Metalworking was an embodiment of that fusion between art and livelihood and between beauty and utility that was very much in keeping with her vision as an anthropologist," Ms. Soetoro-Ng said.[...]

Smear-merchant Jack Cashill has written a libelous piece about Obama's mother and grandparents. It really doesn't even bear on Obama's eligibility. Be forewarned, it's really disgusting, but it shows what kind of people we're dealing with.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/another_look_at_obamas_origins.html

For real connoisseurs, there's a Freep thread devoted to it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-new ... =1&;page=1

it's the same Andy Martin claim - that Frank Marshall Davis is Obama's REAL father. (Which ironically would shoot down the de Vattelists)

It seems the article starts out with the theory that Obama's maternal grandfather is actually his father. But, they realize the President is black.

Davis is the backup plan.

If you have the patience to list all the birther "theories" of why President Obama is ineligible, it's clear none are consistent with each other and most are invented simply to cast aspersions on the President's family background. That's why they always add that "mmmm, hmmmmm" after the hateful shit they spew. They know it's rumors. They just like the idea of demeaning the black man in the White House.

Surprise, Surprise. Neil Sankey and Charlatan join in:

http://www.thepostemail.com/2010/02/08/where-are-our-security-services/

[Sankey claims that he worked ] "thereby, to a degree with the British Security Services, MI5 and others."

What does this mean? That he sometimes carried packages for one of the intelligence agencies?

Has anybody ever figured out the circumstances under which he left the police force and why he moved to America? I find it difficult to believe that he left of his own free will, given his demonstrated incompetence over here.

My understanding is that Sankey's sole responsibility in British law enforcement was being the first one into the room and shouting "What's all this, then?"

My understanding is that Sankey's sole responsibility in British law enforcement was being the first one into the room and shouting "What's all this, then?"

Smear-merchant Jack Cashill has written a libelous piece about Obama's mother and grandparents. It really doesn't even bear on Obama's eligibility. Be forewarned, it's really disgusting, but it shows what kind of people we're dealing with.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/another_look_at_obamas_origins.html

For real connoisseurs, there's a Freep thread devoted to it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-new ... =1&;page=1

The fact that President Obama so strongly resembles his white maternal grandfather is something birthers have trouble explaining away in their theory that he was adopted by Stanley Ann. I'm sure there's at least a couple of them trying to figure out a way to say that (a) his grandfather is actually his father AND (b) Frank Marshall Davis is also his father. Because the President is some kind of alien being from a planet where that's actually possible...

Seriously, don’t you think it should be the job of the chief justice to see that this mass corruption and deception does not happen?

Even if it is not corruption or deception, just plain ideology, what is happening is clearly not in the best interest of the general population or the “common good.”

Smear-merchant Jack Cashill has written a libelous piece about Obama's mother and grandparents. It really doesn't even bear on Obama's eligibility. Be forewarned, it's really disgusting, but it shows what kind of people we're dealing with.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/another_look_at_obamas_origins.html

Some pictures of Stanley Ann posted on facebook by the Barack Obama account, on the occasion of 2012 Mother's Day. Includes a couple I don't remember seeing before:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... =1&theater