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The end of race? : Obama, 2008, and racial politics in America / Donald R. Kinder and Alison Dale-Riddle.

Title
The end of race? : Obama, 2008, and racial politics in America / Donald R. Kinder and Alison Dale-Riddle.
Author
Kinder, Donald R.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2012.

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Additional Authors
Dale-Riddle, Allison
Description
ix, 309 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
This book examines the role of racism in the 2008 Presidential election. How did race affect the election that gave America its first African American president? This book offers some fascinating, and perhaps controversial, findings. The authors assert that racism was in fact an important factor in 2008, and that if not for racism, Barack Obama would have won in a landslide. On the way to this conclusion, they make several other important arguments. In an analysis of the nomination battle between Obama and Hillary Clinton, they show why racial identity matters more in electoral politics than gender identity. Comparing the 2008 election with that of 1960, they find that religion played much the same role in the earlier campaign that race played in 2008. And they argue that racial resentment, a modern form of racism that has superseded the old-fashioned biological variety, is a potent political force.
Uniform Title
ebrary.
Alternative Title
Obama, 2008, and racial politics in America
Subject
  • Obama, Barack
  • Obama, Barack
  • Obama, Barack 1961-
  • Democratic Party (U.S.)
  • USA Präsident
  • USA; Präsident
  • 2001-2009
  • Presidents > United States > Election > 2008
  • Race > Political aspects > United States
  • Racism > Political aspects > United States
  • Race > Aspect politique > États-Unis
  • Racisme > Aspect politique > États-Unis
  • Racism > Political aspects > United States
  • Presidents > Election > United States > 2008
  • Political campaigns > United States
  • Presidential candidates > United States
  • Racially mixed people > United States
  • Politics and government
  • Presidents > Election
  • Race > Political aspects
  • Race relations > Political aspects
  • Racism > Political aspects
  • Präsidentenwahl
  • Ethnische Beziehungen
  • Rassismus
  • Sexismus
  • Präsidentenwahl
  • United States > Race relations > Political aspects
  • United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
  • États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique
  • États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 2001-2009
  • United States > Race relations > Political aspects
  • United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-300) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Elections as revelations -- Social groups and the vote -- Divided by race--and by gender: the 2008 Democratic nomination contest -- Triumph! -- Phantom landslide -- The reverend and the general -- President Obama -- The end of race? -- Appendix : Scales, codes, and auxiliary results.
ISBN
  • 9780300175196
  • 0300175191
LCCN
2011933857
OCLC
  • 711045604
  • SCSB-12506128
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library