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This book examines how school-aged children and youth in the United States, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Jamaica, China, and Russia made meaning of the election of Barack Obama as the first African American President of the United States. The book is developed from an international research study exploring how school-aged youth understood Obama's messages. The book further examines whether youth believed race relations in their country or human relations in the world might change as a result of this historic election. Children made vibrant drawings of what President Obama means to me, revealing their innermost thoughts and secrets about their lives, their futures, and the United States. Youth also revealed how they learned about Obama, including their surprising one word impressions of him. The rich contents of the book, the issues it raises, and the insights it provides will offer readers a unique opportunity to look into the minds of the future generation around the world.

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Dr. Izolda Fotiyeva received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D., from The Ural State University, Russia and Russian Academy of Science. In 2005, Dr. Fotiyeva joined the faculty of the Howard University School of Education where she teaches mathematics and science courses to help preservice teachers be more effective with children in K-12 schools. She published two books, Math with Mom in 2003, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Algebra Word Problems in 2010. In 2002 she was nominated for an Emmy Award as a producer of WHUT Television station's flagship show Evening Exchange with Kojo Nnamdi. In 2004, she won the Telly Award for producing. Dr. Fang Wu is an Associate Professor and Early Childhood Education Program Coordinator in the School of Education at Howard University. She received her B.A., from Beijing Normal University, M.A., from University of Pittsburgh, and Ph.D. from UCLA. Dr. Wu's research foci are on social and emotional development of children in China and in the United States, parenting effect on child development, and children adopted from China by American parents. She is also interested in developmentally appropriate curriculum and teaching practice in early childhood education. Dr. Wu has twice received the Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad awards to take American teachers to China for cultural studies. She has also received the 2011 Fulbright Specialist Program award to teach in a university in China.

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