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Date: February 16, 1998
Author of Black Faces, Black Interests to Speak on "When Whites and Blacks Agree"
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Carol Swain, author of the award-winning Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of African Americans in Congress, will give a lecture entitled "When Whites and Blacks Agree: Fairness in Opportunities" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Monday, March 2, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Bowl 2.
Swain, associate professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 1997ñ98 academic year, won numerous awards for Black Faces, Black Interests, including the 1994 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award given to "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics, or international affairs." She was the co-winner of the 1994 V.O. Key Award for the best book published on Southern politics and of the 1995 D.B. Hardeman Prize for the best scholarly work on the U.S. Congress. Swain is also the editor of Race Versus Class: The New Affirmative Action Debate and of articles and essays on affirmative action, representation, and voting rights law.
Swain, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, is the recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award. She also has received grants from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Swain's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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