Tag: Michael Tesler

  • Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era University of Chicago Press April 2016 272 pages 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 9780226353012 Cloth ISBN: 9780226352961 E-book ISBN: 9780226353159 Michael Tesler, Assistant Professor of Political Science University of California, Irvine When Barack Obama won the presidency, many…

  • White America’s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008 Salon 2016-04-17 Sean McElwee The election of America’s first black president somehow led even more conservative whites to change parties Racism may be the single most important feature of contemporary American politics and the key to understanding the Obama Presidency. This…

  • Barack Obama’s presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era. “Obama’s Race”—and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election—paints a dramatically different picture.