Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1: Measuring Racial Progress in America: The Tangled Path of Race - by Matthew W.
Hughey
Commentary: Constraint and Freedom in the "Age of Obama" - by Kenneth Mack

Chapter 2: Implicit Bias: A Better Metric for Racial Progress? - Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, Robert
Livingston and Joshua Waytz
Commentary: The Erasure of the Affirmative Action Debate in the Age of Obama - by Ian Ayres

Chapter 3: Black Man in the White House: Ideology and Implicit Racial Bias in the Age of
Obama - by Kristin Lane and John Jost
Commentary: Black Man in the White House: A Commentary - Marc H. Morial

Chapter 4: Obama-nation?: Implicit Beliefs about American Nationality and the Possibility of
Redefining Who Counts as "Truly" American - by Nilanjana Dasgupta and Kumar Yogeeswaran
Commentary: As American as Barack Obama - by Lawrence Bobo

Chapter 5: Does Black and Male Still = Threat in the Age of Obama? - by Jennifer A. Richeson
and Meghan G. Bean
Commentary: Threat, Fantasy, and President Obama - by Eddie Glaude, Jr.

Chapter 6: Michelle Obama: Redefining Images of Black Women - by Shanette C. Porter and
Gregory S. Parks
Commentary: First Lady Michelle Obama: Getting Past the Stereotypes - Julianne Malveaux

Chapter 7: Barack, Michelle and the Complexities of a Black "Love Supreme" - Clarenda M.
Phillips, Tamara L. Brown and Gregory S. Parks
Commentary: The Obamas: Beyond Troubled Love - by Jenée Desmond-Harris

Chapter 8: Malia and Sasha: Re-envisioning Black Youth - by Valerie Purdie-
Vaughns and Rachel Sumner
Commentary: Re-envisioning Black Youth: A Commentary by Marc Lamont Hill

Chapter 9: Obama and Global Change in Attitudes about Group Status - by George Ciccariello-
Maher and Matthew Hughey
Commentary: Commentary on Obama and Group Change in Attitudes about Group Status - Michael Dawson

Chapter 10: The Role of Race in American Politics: Lessons Learned from the 2008 Presidential
Election - by Thierry Devos
Commentary: The State of the Post-racial Union - by Farai Chideya

Chapter 11: Obama's Potential to Transform the Racial Attitudes of White Americans - by Jack
Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Tamar Saguy and Eric Hehman
Commentary: Black Behavior and Moral Dissonance: Missing Mechanisms in
Theorizing the Obama Effect - by Richard O. Lempert

Chapter 12: New Bottle, Same Old Wine: The GOP and Race in the Age of Obama - by Russell
J. Webster, Donald A. Saucier and Gregory S. Parks
Commentary: New Bottle, Same Old Wine: A Response - by Melissa Harris-Lacewell

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