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634 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 6 (2011)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0634 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction By MATTHEW O. HUNT and GEORGE WILSON Keywords: race; inequality; ideology; stratification beliefs; racial attitudes; policy D espite Barack Obama's generally race- neutral campaign strategy and subsequent policy agenda, his election as the forty-fourth president of the United States has reinvigorated discussions of the meaning of race and the roles of racial discrimination and inequality in shaping the life chances of African Americans and other ethno-racial minorities (Ford 2009; Smith and King 2009). Some observers-particularly polit- ical conservatives and various proponents of a color-blind perspective and agenda-see Obama's election as further evidence of the country's transition to a postracial age (Schorr 2008; Williams 2008). Others are less sanguine, lamenting the Obama presidency's potential to divert public attention from the stark racial dis- parities still characterizing American society (Bonilla-Silva and Dietrich, this volume). This debate over the implications of the Obama presidency occurs in an era when scholarly atten- tion to the intersections of race, ideology, and inequality has been expanding in concert with the growing racial and ethnic diversity of American society. During the past several decades, sociolo- gists, political scientists, and psychologists have led the way in addressing a wide range of issues Matthew O. Hunt is an associate professor of sociology at Northeastern University. His primary research interests involve intersections of race/ethnicity, social psychology, and inequality in the United States. His work has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, Du Bois Review, and other publications. George Wilson is an associate professor of sociology at the Universit y of Miami. His research interests focus on th e inst itut ional production of racial and ethnic inequal- ity in the workplace and the social structural determi- nants of beliefs about the causes and consequences of racial and stratification ideology. DOI: 10.1177/0002716210386161 ANNALS, AAPSS, 634, March 2011 6

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