The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America

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ID20008724
AuthorsCharles Ogletree, Charles J Ogletree (corresponding author)
EditorsGregory Parks, Matthew Hughey
Year2011
Pages310
Publication date2011-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Obamas and a (post) racial America? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735204.001.0001
OpenAlexW612771543
Open LibraryOL24452662M
ISBN9780199735204
LanguageEN
Citations received21

Since the milestone election of Barack Hussein Obama on November 4, 2008, some have wondered whether the United States can now be considered a post-racial nation. According to this book's contributors, a more nuanced and contemporary analysis and measurement of racial attitudes undercuts this assumption. Despite the election of the first black President and rise of his family as perhaps the most widely 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. Nonetheless, 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

Milestone · Political science · Race (biology) · Salient · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 21st century · African americans · Barack Obama · barack Obama (1961-) · Influence · michelle Obama (1964-) · Post-racialism · race relations · Racism · Social conditions · united states

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