The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America? (Hardcover)

The United States has taken a long and winding road to racial equality, especially as it pertains to relations between blacks and whites. On November 4, 2008, 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?
According to this book's contributors, a more nuanced and contemporary analysis and measurement of racial attitudes undercuts this assumption. They contend that despite the election of the first black President and rise of his family as possibly the most recognized family in the world, race remains a salient issue-particularly in the United States. Looking beyond public behaviors 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 harbor unconscious, anti-black biases. But there are whispers of change. The Obama family's position may yet undermine, at the unconscious level, anti-black attitudes in the United States and abroad. The prominence of the Obamas on the world stage and the image they project may hasten the day when America is indeed post-racial, even at the implicit level.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Political Psychology
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	February 2011
Editors:	Gregory Parks (Law Clerk) • Matthew Hughey (Professor of Sociology & African American Studies)
Series editors:	John Jost (Professor)
Authors:	Charles Ogletree (Jesse Climenko Professor of Law)
Dimensions:	237 x 162 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-973520-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-973520-4
Barcode:	9780199735204

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