{"id":44066,"date":"2015-11-19T02:43:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44066"},"modified":"2015-11-19T02:43:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T02:43:26","slug":"at-last-michelle-obama-beyonce-race-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44066","title":{"rendered":"At Last \u2026?: Michelle Obama, Beyonc\u00e9, Race &#038; History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1162\/DAED_a_00065\" target=\"_blank\">At Last \u2026?: Michelle Obama, Beyonc\u00e9, Race &amp; History<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/loi\/daed\" target=\"_blank\">D\u00e6dalus<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/toc\/daed\/140\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Winter 2011, Volume 140, Number 1<\/a><br \/>\nPosted Online 2011-03-09<br \/>\npages 131-141<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1162\/DAED_a_00065\" target=\"_blank\">10.1162\/DAED_a_00065<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farahjasminegriffin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Farah J. Griffin<\/strong><\/a>, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">First Lady Michelle Obama<\/a> and entertainment mogul <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beyonc%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles<\/a>. Both women signify change in race relations in America, yet both reveal that the history of racial inequality in this country is far from over. As an Ivy League-educated descendent of slaves, Michelle Obama is not just unfamiliar to the mainstream media and the Washington political scene; during the 2008 presidential campaign, she was vilified as angry and unpatriotic. Beyonce, who controls the direction of her career in a way that pioneering black women entertainers could not, has nonetheless styled herself in ways that recall the distinct racial history of the Creole South. Griffin considers how Michelle Obama&#8217;s and Beyonce&#8217;s use of their respective family histories and ancestry has bolstered or diminished their popular appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1162\/DAED_a_00065\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Last \u2026?: Michelle Obama, Beyonc\u00e9, Race &amp; History D\u00e6dalus Winter 2011, Volume 140, Number 1 Posted Online 2011-03-09 pages 131-141 DOI: 10.1162\/DAED_a_00065 Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies Columbia University In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8413,459,8,20],"tags":[21939,9947,2671,7262,21938,20530,2099],"class_list":["post-44066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-communications","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-beyonce","tag-beyonce-knowles","tag-daedalus","tag-ddalus","tag-farah-griffin","tag-farah-j-griffin","tag-michelle-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44066","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=44066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44067,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44066\/revisions\/44067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}