{"id":40705,"date":"2015-04-01T01:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T01:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40705"},"modified":"2015-04-01T01:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T01:23:58","slug":"new-book-explores-role-of-race-for-first-lady-michelle-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40705","title":{"rendered":"New Book Explores Role of Race for First Lady Michelle Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3764564\/role-of-race-new-book-michelle-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>New Book Explores Role of Race for First Lady Michelle Obama<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\" target=\"_blank\">Time<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_rhodan\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maya Rhodan<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter<\/p>\n<p><em>Author paints the First Lady as the President&#8217;s rock, notes the impact her background would have on her future as the nation&#8217;s first black First Lady<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During her senior year at Princeton University, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">First Lady Michelle Obama<\/a> couldn\u2019t imagine she would live to see the election of the nation\u2019s first African American, let alone be married to him. \u201cTo say that during her Princeton years she could not envision an African American president is like saying that the sun rises and sets every day,\u201d writes Northwestern University Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medill.northwestern.edu\/about\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/peter-slevin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Slevin<\/a> in his upcoming biography, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40699\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Michelle Obama: A Life<\/em><\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Even in a short blurb about the Obamas\u2019 budding romance, the author notes that Michelle\u2019s mother <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marian_Shields_Robinson\" target=\"_blank\">Marian<\/a> at one point worried that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack\u2019s<\/a> biracial background <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=40564\" target=\"_blank\">would make navigating society\u2019s prejudices difficult<\/a>. In the end, though, she accepted the future President who she said \u201cshared the values of [their] family.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3764564\/role-of-race-new-book-michelle-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Book Explores Role of Race for First Lady Michelle Obama Time 2015-03-30 Maya Rhodan, Reporter Author paints the First Lady as the President&#8217;s rock, notes the impact her background would have on her future as the nation&#8217;s first black First Lady During her senior year at Princeton University, First Lady Michelle Obama couldn\u2019t imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,5,8,20,25],"tags":[19785,2099,19717,19784,3521],"class_list":["post-40705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-maya-rhodan","tag-michelle-obama","tag-peter-slevin","tag-time","tag-time-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}