American Girl - The Atlantic (January/February 2009)
it will be be fascinating to watch how our popular culture relates to michelle obama - and how she reacts to it. (or reacts against it or plays complicitly with it.)
expecting our First Ladies to radically step away from their stubbornly retro image (an image we impose on them, btw) is too much but there is something worth watching as we observe how this First Lady inhabits her new role.
from that first Schakowsky Power lunch in chicago two years or so ago, i've always admired michelle obama. i've liked her style, her smarts, and i've liked how she forced our media to confront what an accomplished black woman looked like.
(hear that, Real Housewives of Atlanta? sorry if some of y'all like the show but they are tacky as hell. that whole franchise makes me cringe.)
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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