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Michelle Obama and the FLOTUS Effect

Platform, Presence, and Agency
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"The FLOTUS Effect" emphasizes the import of agency on the part of Michelle Obama in relation to her politics as evidenced in her positionality and presence as the first African American woman to serve as First Lady of the United States of America. Her occupation of a previously white space and place tended to frame her as an enigma in the American mind and media. Contributors reflect on Mrs. Obama's eight years in her ceremonial position, and the ways she chose to uniquely embody her role. Hence, the result is a volume that speculates upon her evolving legacy, and the likely "effects" of what it meant to be the first African-American woman to serve in the ceremonial, yet powerful, role of FLOTUS.
1.Poetry in Motions (and Cocoa Butter): Discerning Michelle Obama's Body as a Site of Rhetorical Dissent and Performative Black Womanhood Geraud Blanks 2.Ain't She a First Lady?: Michelle Obama, Black Women's Narratives, and the Rhetoric of Identification Sharoni Denise Little 3.Finding the First Lady: The Construction and Negotiation of Michelle Obama's Identity Leticia D. Williams 4.Negotiated Respectability, the Looking Glass Self and Mrs. Michelle Obama Ernestine A. W. Duncan and Khadijah O. Miller 5.Michelle Obama's Impact on Contemporary Feminisms: A Critical Examination of the Intersectional Raced and Gendered Discourse of the First Lady Diane Forbes Berthoud 6.Reflection, Race, and Representation: Analyzing the Magic of Michelle Obama Effect with and for our Black Daughters Shawntay Stocks, Sherella Cupid and Tahira Mahdi 7."When They Go Low, We Go High": Michelle Obama's Feminine Style Approach to Sexual Assault During the 2016 Election James M. Schnoebelen and Sarah C. Dweik 8.Visuality and the Pathetic First Lady Stephanie Wideman 9.United We Stand: Michelle Obama's Influence on Reframing the Narrative, Imagery and Discourse of Veterans and Military Families Stormy P. Trotter 10.#thanksMichelleObama: The Fight over Healthy School Lunches and Advocacy Work by the First Lady Elizabeth Freund Malnati 11.#TurnipForWhat: The On Fleek Persona of Michelle Obama Erin F. Doss
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