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Obama’s Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Chicago Press<\/a>
\n2010
\n208 pages
\n37 line drawings, 7 tables
\n6 x 9
\nCloth ISBN: 9780226793825; Paperback ISBN: 9780226793832; E-Book ISBN: 9780226793849<\/p>\n

Michael Tesler<\/a><\/strong>, Doctoral Student in Political Science
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

David O. Sears<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Political Science
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

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Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era. Obama\u2019s Race<\/em>\u2014and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election\u2014paints a dramatically different picture.<\/p>\n

The authors argue that the 2008 election was more polarized by racial attitudes than any other presidential election on record\u2014and perhaps more significantly, that there were two sides to this racialization: resentful opposition to and racially liberal support for Obama. As Obama\u2019s campaign was given a boost in the primaries from racial liberals that extended well beyond that usually offered to ideologically similar white candidates, Hillary Clinton<\/a> lost much of her longstanding support and instead became the preferred candidate of Democratic racial conservatives. Time and again, voters\u2019 racial predispositions trumped their ideological preferences as John McCain<\/a>\u2014seldom described as conservative in matters of race\u2014became the darling of racial conservatives from both parties. Hard-hitting and sure to be controversial, Obama\u2019s Race<\/em> will be both praised and criticized\u2014but certainly not ignored.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n