Michelle Obama Archives - Public Seminar

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Presidential Portraits, Down Syndrome, and Sanitation Workers

Past Present Episode 119

February 25, 2018 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate the release of the Obamas’ presidential portraits, the first Gerber Baby with Down syndrome, and the storied history of the sanitation worker.

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Presidential Portraits, Down Syndrome, and Sanitation Workers

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The Meaning of Michelle

First Black First Lady as Outsider Within and Agent of Change

January 19, 2017 • by Esther Franke

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. There are many aspects of the United States, of the political culture and system that I find interesting (to use a word that is telling without saying anything much). One of them is the office of the First Lady. There is ...

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The Promises and Pitfalls of Crucifying Trump

October 19, 2016 • by Ali Shames-Dawson

In his New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, Freud (1933) states that “pathology, in making things larger and coarser, can draw our attention to normal conditions which would have otherwise escaped us.” Though Freud here was talking of the psyche of the neurotic, I think we can apply this insight to ...

The Promises and Pitfalls of Crucifying Trump

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Why Melania Trump’s Plagiarism Matters

July 19, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Two paragraphs from Melania Trump’s speech last night before the Republican National Convention were almost word for word the same as two paragraphs from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech. This is a fact. Such verbatim quoting without attribution is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is widely recognized as a kind of cheating, indeed ...