Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 respons / by Melissa Harris-Lacewell.