Opis: Post-Racial or Most-Racial? - Michael Tesler

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn t lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans political beliefs have become significantly "more "polarized by racial considerations than they had been before Obama s presidency in spite of his administration s considerable efforts to neutralize the political impact of race. Michael Tesler shows how, in the years that followed the 2008 election a presidential election more polarized by racial attitudes than any other in modern times racial considerations have come increasingly to influence many aspects of political decision making. These range from people s evaluations of prominent politicians and the parties to issues seemingly unrelated to race like assessments of public policy or objective economic conditions. Some people even displayed more positive feelings toward Obama s dog, Bo, when they were told he belonged to Ted Kennedy. More broadly, Tesler argues that the rapidly intensifying influence of race in American politics is driving the polarizing partisan divide and the vitriolic atmosphere that has come to characterize American politics. One of the most important books on American racial politics in recent years, "Post-Racial or Most-Racial? "is required reading for anyone wishing to understand what has happened in the United States during Obama s presidency and how it might shape the country long after he leaves office." Tesler s subject is racialization: the process whereby racial considerations are brought more heavily to bear on political evaluations. His claim is that Obama s omnipresence as president and his embodiment of blackness has produced widespread racialization in the white public. The strength of the project and it is a considerable strength is Tesler s brilliant marshaling of evidence in support of his claim: from repeated cross-sectional surveys carried out with identical instrumentation on comparable national samples, before and during Obama s presidency; from several National Science Foundation-funded studies that reinterview respondents who had participated in previous national surveys prior to Obama s rise to national prominence; and from a series of artfully designed experiments. Decades ago, Myrdal argued that a fundamental test of the American experiment with democracy was how well we would deal with race. He was right. Tesler has shown how far we have yet to go. --Donald R. Kinder, University of Michigan"

Szczegóły: Post-Racial or Most-Racial? - Michael Tesler

Tytuł: Post-Racial or Most-Racial?
Autor: Michael Tesler
Wydawnictwo: Chicago University Press
ISBN: 9780226353012
Rok wydania: 2016
Ilość stron: 272
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.39 kg

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