Michelle Obama

Throughout African-American history and the black feminist movement, women have been breaking boundaries of societal and patriarchal normalcy to achieve equality. Black women have used a variety of methods and disciplines to create their own voice as people who have sustained through a racially oppressive and cultural fight. Black women are still trying to establish ethos, a positive view, and voice apart from stereotypical representations of the “angry-black-woman” derived from pop-culture. First Lady Michelle Obama is no exception to this rule. She is a special case because she is creating her own history and legacy as the first Africa-American First Lady of the United States. Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor analyzes the themes
She extends their legacy in one example by speaking in depth on subject at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Her speaking topics such as gay marriage on the first DNC in 2008, was controversial because it was a taboo subject explored in this time because the same-sex marriage law was not passed by the government at this time. Also, as a woman in the White House, she extended her dual job as a mother and a professional by ensuring that her daughters went to school in Chicago while Barack Obama served his time as a senator and still maintained her job in
Even during the campaigning of Barack Obama into the presidency, both were very active on social media to show that he was a candidate of modern times. Her ability to be authentic as a person and to show her true self as a rhetor was seen through her Let’s Move! campaign by “eating habits of the Obama family and sharing healthy eating events”
Rhetoric is again shown through her persuasiveness in positioning because her opinions and actions do not fold on the leadership of this campaign (Natalle, 2015, p. 62).
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3. In what way is Michelle Obama unique as a rhetor as seen through the eyes of the authors of this anthology?
Michelle Obama is unique as a rhetor in her public address of an audience and her learned relaxed speaking style. Michelle Obama is notorious for starting her speeches with children as giving hugs, bright smiles, or addressing her audiences with a simplistic greeting, such as, “Hey everybody!” This informal speaking style is used
4. What analytical tools stood out for you as you read Chapters 2-7? (It is possible you will borrow something you read here in your own research in CST