_____ Trash in the White House: Michelle Obama, Post-Racism, and the Pre-Class Politics of Domestic Style

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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).

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Joan Faber McAlister

Joan Faber McAlister is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies in the Department for the Study of Culture and Society at Drake University. Her research interests include suburban culture, domestic space, visual rhetorics, aesthetics, Critical Theory, and the politics and performance of class, race, gender and sexuality in daily life. Dr. McAlister was the 2008 recipient of the Gary Gumpert Research Incentive Award and her work has appeared in Women's Studies in Communication, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, and edited volumes in the field of rhetorical studies