Enjoy fast, free delivery, exclusive deals, and award-winning movies & TV shows with Prime
Try Prime and start saving today with fast, free delivery

Kindle
$21.99

Available instantly

Hardcover
$119.46

Paperback
$24.43

List Price: $29.00 Details

Save: $4.57 (16%)

Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns

FREE delivery Monday, March 11 on orders shipped by Amazon over $35

Or fastest delivery Thursday, March 7. Order within 13 hrs 21 mins

Select delivery location

In Stock

$$24.43 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Ships from

Amazon.com

Ships from

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Sold by

Amazon.com

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

Returns

Eligible for Return, Refund or Replacement within 30 days of receipt

This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt.

Read full return policy

Payment

Secure transaction

Payment

Secure transaction

We work hard to protect your security and privacy. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Learn more

Details

Add a gift receipt for easy returns

$3.99 delivery March 14 - 20. Details

Or fastest delivery March 12 - 15. Details

Select delivery location

Used: Good | Details

Sold by Goodwill of Colorado

Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$22.79
& FREE Shipping

Sold by: TommyBee

Added

Not added

$23.00
& FREE Shipping

Sold by: Gryphon Editions

Follow the author

Michael Tesler

Follow

Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama Era (Chicago Studies in American Politics) Paperback – Illustrated, April 4, 2016

by Michael Tesler (Author)

4.4 20 ratings

Part of: Chicago Studies in American Politics (59 books)

See all formats and editions

{"desktop_buybox_group_1":[{"displayPrice":"$24.43","priceAmount":24.43,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"24","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"43","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"XESyPUW5G0h7fYiJ03zACe%2BZ5YjbuZxyiMRoUVtnIxb2HDFOL0NPBtR8ziuohZdli2J53IMh395BTmOZNvKRRBvXhCJ3qR9kCfalRFLk3eXrkzl6Yym9fPJPWlqNGcOYlcGkGOnmstB4KZvnaxUuPw%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"NEW","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":0}, {"displayPrice":"$1.99","priceAmount":1.99,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"1","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"99","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"XESyPUW5G0h7fYiJ03zACe%2BZ5YjbuZxy%2B%2B8ZD3%2FxOWD7j%2BgSK6zMhGsGodN8K7z0pFZF3wPIvVDpVYAlO2yKQvBqf0XdMjiwNjIlCphsdC%2FT%2BKXoTqVXbTYV7XXQlD4fHryHtUxY10w7RRyNrKzw1VTdDUGPLFjS4DeBWvz%2FZfy9Bs1PRSIl3A%3D%3D","locale":"en-US","buyingOptionType":"USED","aapiBuyingOptionIndex":1}]}

Purchase options and add-ons

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.

Part of series

Chicago Studies in American Politics
Print length

272 pages
Language

English
Publisher

University of Chicago Press
Publication date

April 4, 2016
Dimensions

6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

9780226353012
ISBN-13

978-0226353012
See all details

Frequently bought together

Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama Era (Chicago Studies in American Politics)

$24.43

Get it as soon as Monday, Mar 11

In Stock

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race (Critical America, 16)

$22.39

Get it as soon as Monday, Mar 11

In Stock

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

+

American While Black: African Americans, Immigration, and the Limits of Citizenship

$34.55

Get it as soon as Monday, Mar 11

Only 13 left in stock - order soon.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.

Total price:

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Try again!

Details

Added to Cart

Some of these items ship sooner than the others.

Show details Hide details

Choose items to buy together.

Ian Haney López
176
Paperback
46 offers from $6.00
Niambi Michele Carter
37
Paperback
28 offers from $18.46

Editorial Reviews

Review

“One of the most important books on racial politics to appear in the United States, Post-Racial or Most-Racial? presents cutting-edge analysis of racial attitudes and their effects on modern American politics. Tesler superbly sets out the extent to which heightened partisan and ideological polarization characterizing American politics in the last two decades is a deeply racialized division and argues persuasively that mass politics became more heavily influenced by racial considerations during Obama’s presidency. Statistically rigorous, theoretically nuanced, and politically important, this is a major work of original scholarship.” -- Desmond King, University of Oxford

“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

"Tesler makes a powerful argument that race has affected even seemingly non-racial parts of American society.” ― Salon Published On: 2016-04-28

"The main course of the book is an attempt to demonstrate, with scientific validity, the influence of these racial attitudes during the Obama years. This happens to be an exceedingly complicated business, because people are highly sensitive to questions about their attitudes on race, and are thus highly adept at avoiding answers that might show them as racist. . . . Tesler’s book painstakingly shows how comprehensive these problems were when dealing with the nation’s first black president" ― Congress & the Presidency

"Michael Tesler’s Post-Racial or Most-Racial: Race and Politics in the Obama Era deals with whether voting during the Barack Obama era 2008-16 was more or less racially motivated than in the past (he influenced polls before he was elected president). Just as it was said that the end of the Cold War signalled the end of history, so it was sometimes said that the election of Barack Obama signalled a post-racial USA—free from racial preference, discrimination and prejudice. Based on numerous survey and interview-based public opinion panels, Tesler argues (successfully in my opinion) that politics became, instead, more racial during this time, with whites and racial conservatives moving and sorting even more toward the Republican Party and non-whites moving and sorting more toward the Democratic Party." -- Eleanor D. Glor ― The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal

About the Author

Michael Tesler is assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, and coauthor of Obama’s Race, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 022635301X
Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition (April 4, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780226353012
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226353012
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,651,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,420 in General Elections & Political Process
- #6,937 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
- #7,086 in U.S. Political Science

Customer Reviews:
4.4 20 ratings

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Videos

Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video!

Upload your video

Important information

To report an issue with this product or seller, click here.

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Michael Tesler

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more

Customer reviews

4.4 out of 5

20 global ratings

2 star

0%

1 star

3%

How customer reviews and ratings work

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Amazon Customer

Engaging and enlightening.

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2017

Verified Purchase

Wonderful book. I read it for one of my classes this semester, and it was very engaging and easy to read. I thought the content was also very contemporary and introduced to me a variety of ideas that I had never thought of before. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about how biases with respect to race interact with policy preferences, something that is increasingly important in today's society.

4 people found this helpful

Helpful

Katrina

Tesler's work is extraordinary. You may not agree with ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2016

Verified Purchase

Tesler's work is extraordinary. You may not agree with everything he concludes, but he certainly provides ample evidence and draws fairly clear conclusions. The writing is a little slow and sometimes is a bit much for an average reader, but as a dissertation project, that would make sense. I thought the book explained quite a few phenomena, without explicitly telling the reader the right answer.

10 people found this helpful

Helpful

Alex K

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2017

Verified Purchase

A powerful look at the role race has played in the Obama era.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Joseph