'Race still matters, however... ': Implicit identification with blacks, pro-black policy support and the Obama candidacy

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1047-1069

  Craemer, Thomas ^a   Shaw, Todd C ^b   Edwards, Courtney ^b   Jefferson, Hakeem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

affirmative action; Barack Obama; implicit closeness to blacks; racial resentment; self other overlap: self expansion

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; POLICY ANALYSIS; POLICY APPROACH; RACIAL IDENTITY; RACISM;

MYCTEROPERCA BONACI;

EID: 84879040542     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.628999     Document Type: Article

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