{"id":46659,"date":"2016-04-21T01:40:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46659"},"modified":"2016-04-21T01:40:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:40:49","slug":"white-americas-obama-era-freakout-what-research-can-tell-us-about-racial-animus-since-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46659","title":{"rendered":"White America\u2019s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/04\/17\/white_americas_obama_era_freakout_what_research_can_tell_us_about_racial_animus_since_2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">White America\u2019s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanamcelwee.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sean McElwee<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The election of America&#8217;s first black president somehow led even more conservative whites to change parties<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Racism may be the single most important feature of contemporary American politics and the key to understanding the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Obama<\/a> Presidency. This is not to say that other things don\u2019t matter: class, gender, religion, region all certainly affect political views. But if you want to understand the broad contours of American politics today, you need to examine race. Previously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/04\/04\/the_democratic_partys_great_white_flight_how_racism_spurred_a_demographic_reckoning\/\" target=\"_blank\">I\u2019ve argued<\/a> that whites are rapidly leaving the Democratic Party because of racism. But in his new book, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46210\" target=\"_blank\">Post-Racial or Most-Racial<\/a>,\u201d political scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/mst.michaeltesler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Tesler<\/a> makes a powerful argument that race has affected even seemingly non-racial parts of American society&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/04\/17\/white_americas_obama_era_freakout_what_research_can_tell_us_about_racial_animus_since_2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White America\u2019s Obama-era freakout: What research can tell us about racial animus since 2008 Salon 2016-04-17 Sean McElwee The election of America&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[7272,10962,19630],"class_list":["post-46659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-michael-tesler","tag-salon","tag-sean-mcelwee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46660,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46659\/revisions\/46660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}