Notes
1. Megan Slack, “Tammy Bruce Calls The Obamas ‘Trash In The White House,’” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/tammy-bruce-calls-the-oba_n_178109.html (accessed April 19, 2008).
2. Slack.
3. Rita Barnard, Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers and the Politics of Place (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 85.
4. bell hooks, Where We Stand: Class Matters (New York: Routledge, 2000), 112.
5. John J. Hartigan, “Name calling: Objectifying ‘Poor Whites’ and ‘White trash’ in Detroit,” in White Trash: Race and Class in America, ed. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz (New York: Routledge, 1997), 41–56, quotation from 47.
6. Hartigan, 53.
7. Gael Sweeney, “The King of White Trash Culture: Elvis Presley and the Aesthetics of Excess,” in White Trash: Race and Class in America, ed. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz (New York: Routledge, 1997), 249–66, quotation from 252.
8. Hooks, 135.
9. Kelly Wallace, “Mom in Chief,” Plum (Winter 2009): 162–70, quotation from 165.
10. Andre Leon Talley, “Leading Lady,” Vogue (March 2009): 428–34, 504–5, quotation from 430.
11. Wendy Donahue, “Michelle Obama's Fashion Followers Predict Element of Surprise,” Chicago Tribune, January 16, 2009, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).
12. Jocelyn Noveck, “Why all the Fuss over the First Lady's Bare Arms?” Associated Press Online, March 24, 2009, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).
13. Noveck.
14. Meghan Daum, “The No-win Role of the First Lady,” Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2009, A-29, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe.
15. Laura Kipnis, “White Trash Girl: The Interview,” in White Trash: Race and Class in America, ed. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz (New York: Routledge, 1997), 113–30, quotation from 114.
16. Elizabeth Wellington, “Enticing, Unnerving One-shoulder Gowns,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 25, 2009, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).
17. Noveck.
18. Myra G. Gutin, The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989), 52.
19. Talley, 431.
20. Talley, 434.
21. Talley, 434.
22. Kelvin Browne, “No Fancy Nancy’ in White House,” National Post, February 13, 2009, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).
23. Donahue.
24. Samantha Critchell, “Michelle Obama Chooses White Ball Gown,” The Associated Press, January 21, 2009, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).
25. Daum.
26. “Extreme Home Makeover?; What will Obama's Designer Change?” Good Morning America, January 15, 2009, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).
27. “Decorator Michael Smith to decorate the White House for the Obamas,” Today, January 15, 2009, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).
28. “Extreme Home Makeover?”
29. “Decorator Michael Smith.”
30. Sapienza.
31. Westfall, 118.
32. “The O Interview,” 144.
33. Talley, 430.
34. Westfall, 114.
35. A First Lady, 9.
36. Westfall, 118.
37. Daum.
38. Westfall, 113.
39. Westfall, 118.
40. Darlene Superville, “Next First Lady no ‘Plastic Talking Head,’” Associated Press, http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe (accessed June 16, 2009).