The Obama effect
Subtitle: how the 2008 campaign changed white racial attitudes
By: Seth K. Goldman and Diana C. Mutz
Contributors: Mutz, Diana Carole
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780871545725; 9781610448246
Subjects: Presidents; Election; Race relations; Political aspects; Whites; Attitudes; Post-racialism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references( pages 163-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: The impact of the Obama campaign on white racial attitudes; title: Part I. Documenting change in white racial attitudes during the 2008 campaign; title: Is the decline in white racial prejudice meaningful?; title: Visions of unity: white perceptions of race relations; title: Part II. Explaining change in white racial attitudes during the 2008 campaign; title: The role of mass media in changing white racial attitudes; title: Testing rival theories of media influence; title: Part III. Epilogue: White racial attitudes after the 2008 campaign; title: Whatever happened to the Obama exemplar?; title: Implications for the study of racial attitudes.