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She and a Princeton professor (of politics and African American Studies, I think) discussed the way gender and race are playing out even though the campaigns are consciously not using them as issues. It was interesting to hear the prof point out the subversion of gender issues to advance racial ones that were espoused by the civil rights movement. Modern history is not my thing, so I know less than nothing about that.

Transcript (http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/14/race_and_gender_in_presidential_politics).