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Title The Obamas and a (post) racial America? / edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 310 pages)
Series Series in political psychology
Series in political psychology.
Contents Introduction -- Measuring racial progress in America : the tangled path of race / by Matthew W. Hughey -- Commentary : constraint and freedom in the "age of Obama" / by Kenneth Mack -- Implicit bias : a better metric for racial progress? / Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, Robert Livingston and Joshua Waytz -- Commentary : the erasure of the affirmative action debate in the age of Obama / by Ian Ayres -- Black man in the White House : ideology and implicit racial bias in the age of Obama / by Kristin Lane and John Jost -- Commentary : Black man in the White House : a commentary / Marc H. Morial -- Obama-nation? : implicit beliefs about American nationality and the possibility of redefining who counts as "truly" American / by Nilanjana Dasgupta and Kumar Yogeeswaran -- Commentary : as American as Barack Obama / by Lawrence Bobo -- Does Black and male still = threat in the age of Obama? / by Jennifer A. Richeson and Meghan G. Bean -- Commentary : threat, fantasy, and President Obama / by Eddie Glaude, Jr -- Michelle Obama : redefining images of Black women / by Shanette C. Porter and Gregory S. Parks -- Commentary : first lady Michelle Obama : getting past the stereotypes / Julianne Malveaux -- Barack, Michelle and the complexities of a Black "love supreme" / Clarenda M Phillips, Tamara L. Brown and Gregory S. Parks -- Commentary : the Obamas : beyond troubled love / by Jenée Desmond-Harris -- Malia and Sasha : re-envisioning Black youth / by Valerie Purdie-Vaughns and Rachel Sumner -- Commentary : re-envisioning Black youth : a commentary by Marc Lamont Hill -- Obama and global change in attitudes about group status / by George Ciccariello-Maher and Matthew Hughey -- Commentary : commentary on Obama and group change in attitudes about group status / Michael Dawson -- The role of race in American politics : lessons learned from the 2008 presidential -- Election / by Thierry Devos -- Commentary : the state of the post-racial union / by Farai Chideya -- Obama's potential to transform the racial attitudes of White Americans / by Jack -- Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Tamar Saguy and Eric Hehman -- Commentary : Black behavior and moral dissonance : missing mechanisms in -- Theorizing the Obama effect / by Richard O. Lempert -- New bottle, same old wine : the GOP and race in the age of Obama / by Russell J. Webster, Donald A. Saucier and Gregory S. Parks -- Commentary : new bottle, same old wine : a response / by Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Summary Looking beyond public behaviours and how people describe their own attitudes, the contributors draw from the latest research to show how, despite the Obama family's rapid rise to national prominence, many Americans continue to harbour unconscious, anti-black biases
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Obama, Barack -- Influence
Obama, Michelle, 1964- -- Influence
SUBJECT Obama, Barack fast
Obama, Michelle, 1964- fast
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Post-racialism -- United States
Racism -- United States
HISTORY.
African Americans -- Social conditions
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Post-racialism
Race relations
Racism
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Hughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Parks, Gregory, 1974-
ISBN 9780199735204
0199735204
9780199781294
019978129X