Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
Editors: Professors Lawrence D. Bobo and Michael C. Dawson
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Senior Associate Editor: Professor Tommie Shelby
E-mail: dbreview@fas.harvard.edu
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The Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
The Obama Issue
The Du Bois Review is a scholarly, multidisciplinary, and multicultural journal devoted to social science research and criticism about race. Launched in the spring of 2004, the journal provides a forum for discussion and increased understanding of race and society from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, law, communications, public policy, psychology, linguistics, and history. The editors of this peer-reviewed journal are Professor Lawrence D. Bobo (Harvard University) and Professor Michael C. Dawson (University of Chicago), with Professor Tommie Shelby (Harvard University) serving as Senior Associate Editor.
Published by Cambridge University Press, each issue of the Du Bois Review contains between 200 and 225 pages and has four major sections. The first is a Statement from the Editors that provides a commentary on the state and the study of race as well as an overview of the issue. The second section, State of the Discipline, presents lead essays that synthetically critique broad areas of research regarding race. The third section, State of the Art, offers three to five major research articles. These articles are peer reviewed and rival the quality of those published in the best journals in the social sciences. The fourth section, State of the Discourse, comprises major review essays, each of which comments on two to four seminal books, controversies, and/or strands of research in the study of race. The essays exploring “controversies” present the various sides of critical debate within society as well as the scholarly study of race.
Now in its sixth year, the Du Bois Review has already made a name for itself among sociologists, political scientists, historians, and other scholars whose work focuses upon race. Volume 6, No. 1 of the Du Bois Review, Obama’s Path, is devoted to race, politics and the path to the Obama Presidency.
The Table of Contents for DBR Volume 6, No. 1, is given below, and the issue is now downloadable in .pdf format (by subscribers) at Cambridge University Press.
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, Volume 6, no. 1, Spring 2009, Obama’s Path
| EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION |
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A Change Has Come: Race, Politics, and the Path to the Obama Presidency |
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STATE OF THE DISCOURSE |
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Special Feature |
15 |
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Barack Obama and the Future of American Racial Politics |
25 |
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Barack Is the New Black: Obama and the Promise/Threat of the Post-Civil Rights Era |
37 |
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Just Do It: Notes on Politics and Race at the Dawn of the Obama Presidency |
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Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Voting Booth and Beyond: A Social-Psychological Perspective on Racial Attitudes and Behavior in the Obama Era |
71 |
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STATE OF THE DISCIPLINE |
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Images of Black Americans: Then, “Them,” and Now, “Obama!” |
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Personality and Ideology as Determinants of Candidate Preferences and “Obama Conversion” in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election |
103 |
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Ecosystem Perspective and Barack Obama’s Campaign for the Presidency |
125 |
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Change We Can Believe In? Barack Obama’s Framing Strategies for Bridging Racial Divisions |
137 |
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STATE OF THE ART |
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Can the New Commander in Chief Sustain His All-Volunteer Standing Army? |
153 |
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Race/Ethnicity, Perceived Discrimination, and Beliefs about the Meaning of an Obama Presidency |
173 |
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A Black Man in the White House?: The Role of Racism and Patriotism in the 2008 Presidential Election |
193 |
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Race-Based Considerations and the Obama Vote: Evidence from the 2008 National Asian American Survey |
219 |
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CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1 |
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