Research on racial attitudes during the 2008 presidential campaign from Professor Diana Mutz and Seth Goldman, a post-doctoral fellow at Penn's Annenberg School for Communication, is featured on the New York Times' Opinionator Blog. The piece from Thomas Edsall is titled, "How Much Does Race Still Matter?"
Edsall mentions Mutz and Goldman's forthcoming book, The Obama Effect: How the 2008 Campaign Changed White Racial Attitudes as well as Goldman's recent publication in Public Opinion Quarterly. You can access the piece on NYTimes.com.