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NEWS ABOUT: Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro

Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro stories: 5 news summaries

 Obama's Sister Moving to DC 


Jul 31, 09 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's half-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng is moving with her family from Hawaii to Washington for the next several months, reports the New York Times. Soetoro-Ng, the daughter of Obama's mother Stanley Ann Dunham and an Indonesian father, has quit her job as a high school teacher to write a book.... More »

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Barack Obama • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro • Obama family

Anthropology Book By Obama's Mom to Hit Shelves

Study of Indonesian craftsmen will hit shelves 14 years after her death

May 5, 09 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's mother died before she finished revising her Ph.D dissertation for publication, but two of her fellow anthropologists have now completed the job, reports the Chicago Tribune. Stanley Ann Dunham's Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia—the study of blacksmiths and other rural craftsmen she completed... More »

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Barack Obama • Indonesia • Duke University • anthropology • book • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro

Obama Is a Son of Hawaii, but a Man of Chicago

Island looms large among the forces that shaped him

Aug 23, 08 2:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hawaii and Chicago shaped the Barack Obama we know today in very different ways, David Maranis writes in a detailed look at the candidate's formative years in the Washington Post. Hawaii, multiracial but with its own social stratification, helped form the young Obama's outlook on life, but he found himself... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • Hawaii • Honolulu • Dreams From My Father • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro • Barack Obama Sr.






  Meet Obama's
  Free-Spirited Mom 

How a single white woman from Kansas shaped a presidential contender

Mar 14, 08 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Barack Obama’s stump speeches, his mother is little but a single mom, a cancer victim, a white woman from Kansas. But in life, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro was a fascinating figure, a globe-trotting free spirit desperate to help the world. Soetoro never lived to see her son’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Indonesia • Election 2008 • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro • political families

Obama Draws on the Audacity of Mom

Kansas-born Ann Dunham worked to uplift the poor in the world's most fractured places

Feb 11, 08 4:15 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s mother is sometimes described just as “a white woman from Kansas,” but Ann Dunham possessed an indomitable spirit and fierce open-mindedness that profoundly shaped her son. Dunham was a single mom and social activist who worked in Indonesia and Pakistan, and consulted for the World... More »

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Barack Obama • Indonesia • Maya Soetoro-Ng • Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro

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