While many books have looked at Michelle Obama from a fashion perspective, no book has fully explored what she truly means to her culture. The Meaning of Michelle does just that!While offering a parting gift to a landmark moment in American history. This book, in addition to a tribute to Michelle Obama, is also a rollicking, lively dinner party conversation about race, class, marriage, creativity, womanhood and what it means to be American today.
This book collects essays from 16 writers, many of them African-American women, about what it’s been like to witness Michelle Obama in the White House. Social class emerges frequently in this volume. Mrs. Obama is compared to many historical and contemporary figures in this book, from Sojourner Truth and Zora Neale Hurston to Beyoncé and Angela Bassett. The best thing about her, though, nearly all of these writers contend, is that she’s been like no one else at all.