The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?
1st Edition
Published on 28. January 2011
331 pages
978-0-19-978129-4 (ISBN)
Description
The United States has taken a long and winding road to racial equality, especially as it pertains to relations between blacks and whites. When Barack Hussein Obama was elected as the forty-fourth President of the United States and first black person to occupy the highest office in the land, many wondered whether that road had finally come to an end. Do we now live in a post-racial nation? This volume contends that despite the election of the first black President and rise of a black American family as possibly the most recognized family the world over, race is still a very salient issue-particularly in the United States. But the prominence of the Obamas on the world stage and the positive image they project may hasten the day when America is indeed post-racial, even at the implicit level.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Measuring Racial Progress in America: The Tangled Path
- Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the "Age of Obama"
- 2 Implicit Bias: A Better Metric for Racial Progress?
- Commentary: The Erasure of the Affirmative Action Debate in the Age of Obama
- 3 Black Man in the White House: Ideology and Implicit Racial Bias in the Age of Obama
- Commentary: Black Man in the White House
- 4 Obama-Nation? Implicit Beliefs about American Nationality and the Possibility of Redefining Who Counts as "Truly" American
- Commentary: As American as Barack Obama
- 5 Does Black and Male Still = Threat in the Age of Obama?
- Commentary: Threat, Fantasy, and President Obama
- 6 Michelle Obama: Redefining Images of Black Women
- Commentary: First Lady Michelle Obama: Getting
- 7 Barack, Michelle, and the Complexities of a Black "Love Supreme"
- Commentary: The Obamas: Beyond Troubled Love
- 8 Sasha and Malia: Re-Envisioning African-American Youth
- Commentary: Re-Envisioning Black Youth
- 9 Obama and Global Change in Perceptions of Group Status
- Commentary: Obama and Group Change in Attitudes about Group Status
- 10 The Role of Race in American Politics: Lessons Learned from the 2008 Presidential Election
- Commentary: The State of the Post-Racial Union
- 11 Obama's Potential to Transform the Racial Attitudes of White Americans
- Commentary: Black Behavior and Moral Dissonance: Missing Mechanisms in Theorizing the Obama Effect
- 12 New Bottle, Same Old Wine: The GOP and Race in the Age of Obama
- Commentary: New Bottle, Same Old Wine: A Response
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- About the Commentators
- Index
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