Coda

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-226
Author(s):  
Koritha Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
American Dream ◽  
White Men ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
First Lady ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
White House ◽  
At Home

The Coda tells a basic truth that should not go unsaid: the investment in know-your-place aggression led many Americans to react to the Obama administration—and the image of a black first lady—by putting Donald Trump in the White House. Committed to keeping people who are not straight, white, and male in a subordinate position, Americans took the nation “From Mom-in-Chief to Predator-in-Chief.” What better way to tell women, especially women of color, that they aren’t at home than with the election of Donald Trump, despite his admitting to sexual predation? Americans spoke loudly and acted out of their belief that the American Dream might be for white men who damage communities and institutions, but it is certainly not for accomplished black women. [124 of 125 words]

Trump Reverses Certain Steps Toward Normalizing Relations with Cuba

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 1027-1035
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
White House ◽  
Senior Official ◽  
Roll Back ◽  
Trump Administration

In June 2017, President Donald Trump announced a plan to roll back various steps taken by his predecessor toward normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba. A senior official for the administration announced the plan in a White House press briefing:The President vowed to reverse the Obama administration policies toward Cuba that have enriched the Cuban military regime and increased the repression on the island. It is a promise that President Trump made, and it's a promise that President Trump is keeping.With this is a readjustment of the United States policy towards Cuba. And you will see that, going forward, the new policy under the Trump administration, will empower the Cuban people. To reiterate, the new policy going forward does not target the Cuban people, but it does target the repressive members of the Cuban military government.

scholarly journals White House Urges Future Science and Technology Priorities

Eos ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Showstack
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
White House ◽  
Future Science ◽  
President Elect

Memos from the departing Obama administration specify science and technology frontiers for investment by President-elect Donald Trump and Congress.

Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Williams
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
White Men ◽  
Sexual Relationships ◽  
The Self ◽  
History Of ◽  
Domestic Servitude ◽  
Free Women

This chapter seeks to reconcile the persistent myth of the self-directed quadroon—women possessing one fourth black and three fourths white “blood”—finding love and quasi-marriage at a glamorous and respectable quadroon ball with the known history of the sexual exploitation of black women, both slave and free. White men frequently engaged in sexual relationships with women of color, including free women of color, in pre-Civil War Louisiana, yet fictionalized representations of the balls distort and obscure important realities about race, sex, and power in the nineteenth century. White men exercised sexual access to women of color in a variety of blurred and overlapping forms, including slavery, domestic servitude, prostitution, and other relationships, all of which could be placed under the rubric of what Louisiana law termed concubinage.

A Home of One’s Own

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-62
Author(s):  
Koritha Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
White House ◽  
Rightful Place ◽  
The Prestige ◽  
The Way ◽  
At Home

Using slave narratives, this chapter shows how African Americans defined and redefined success during slavery. With an emphasis on Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) and Elizabeth Keckley’s Behind the Scenes; Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House (1868), it charts black women’s determination to move from slave cabins to the nation’s most iconic house. In all environments, authors highlight practices of making-oneself-at-home, the activities that sustain black women and their loved ones no matter how hostile their surroundings. Even when the environment is assumed to be less hostile—given the prestige of the White House, for example—it remains crucial to assert one’s rightful place because one encounters opposition every step of the way. [125 of 125 words]

White House, Black Mother: Michelle Obama and the Politics of Motherhood as First Lady

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 460-483
Author(s):  
Gloria Y. A. Ayee ◽  
Jessica D. Johnson Carew ◽  
Taneisha N. Means ◽  
Alicia M. Reyes-Barriéntez ◽  
Nura A. Sediqe
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Woman ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Mothers ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
First Lady ◽  
White House ◽  
Michelle Obama ◽  
History Of

AbstractIn 2008, for the first time in the history of this country, a black woman became First Lady of the United States. During Barack Obama's presidency, Michelle Obama was ever present in the public eye for her advocacy on issues related to health, military families, education, and for promoting the interests of women and girls. This article contributes to ongoing scholarly discourse, as well as extensive media coverage and analysis, regarding Obama's role as wife and first lady by critically examining how the particular model of motherhood she embraced and exhibited, a model firmly rooted in the black American community, was designed to challenge negative stereotypes of black women, maternity, and families. We address the following questions in this work: How did Obama's identity as a black woman influence the policies she championed as first lady? Does Obama's mothering relate to stereotypes of black mothers and help (re)define black motherhood, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a black mater gentis or mother of the nation? Drawing on her speeches and policy initiatives, we reveal how Michelle Obama defied dominant and oppressive stereotypes of black women and mothers while simultaneously (re)defining black womanhood and motherhood for the nation.

Documents and Source Material

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The West ◽  
White House ◽  
Peace Negotiations ◽  
Annotated List ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The Government ◽  
Source Materials

This section comprises international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials, as well as an annotated list of recommended reports. Significant developments this quarter: In the international diplomatic arena, the UN Security Council approved Resolution 2334, reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements and calling for a return to peace negotiations. Additionally, former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry delivered a final address on the Israel-Palestine conflict, outlining a groundwork for negotiations. Two weeks later, international diplomats met in Paris to establish incentives for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to return to the negotiating table. Despite international discussions of peace talks and the impediment settlements pose to a two-state solution, the Israeli Knesset passed the controversial Regulation Law, enabling the government to retroactively legalize settlements and confiscate Palestinian land throughout the West Bank. Meanwhile, U.S. president Donald Trump took office on 20 January 2017, and he wasted no time before inviting Netanyahu to the White House for their first meeting, in February.

The Decline of the Liberal Global Order and the Revival of Nationalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yale H. Ferguson ◽  
Richard W. Mansbach
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Global Organizations ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
Us Hegemony ◽  
National Populism

This chapter addresses the erosion of the postwar liberal global order and the accompanying disorder in global politics. It describes the perceptions of declining US hegemony during the Obama administration of American decline and the return of geopolitical and economic rivalries that are undermining the liberal order. The election of President Donald Trump in 2016 in the United States was the most significant manifestation of national populism that has emerged in recent years in Europe and elsewhere. The profile of supporters of national populism are much the same globally. They oppose so-called elites and immigrants (especially minorities) whom they blame for the loss of manufacturing jobs. After defining national populism, the chapter describes how it fosters isolationism and malignant nationalism and focuses on national interests rather than global cooperation. Such policies threaten the movement of goods and people, multinational global organizations, and the postwar order in which globalization thrives.

scholarly journals Europe Abhors Donald Trump: The Opinion on the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections and Their Candidates in the European Newspapers

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110055
Author(s):  
Marçal Sintes-Olivella ◽  
Pere Franch ◽  
Elena Yeste-Piquer ◽  
Klaus Zilles
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Presidential Debates ◽  
White House ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Common ◽  
The U.S

What is the opinion held by the European press on the U.S. election campaign and the candidates running for president? What are the predominant issues that attract the attention of European print media? Does Europe detest Donald Trump? The objective of the present study is to analyze the perception European commentators had of the 2020 race for the White House. The media, the audience, and European governments were captivated more than ever before by how the U.S. election campaign unfolded, fixing their gaze on the contest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Through a combined quantitative and qualitative methodology, a combination of content analysis and the application of framing theory (hitherto scarcely applied to opinion pieces), our research centers on exploring the views, opinions, and analyses published in eight leading newspapers from four European countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom) as expressed in their editorials and opinion articles. This study observes how the televised presidential debates were commented on, interpreted, and assessed by commentators from the eight newspapers we selected. The goal was to identify the common issues and frames that affected European public opinion on the U.S. presidential campaign and the aspirants to the White House.

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