The Re-Celebrification of Malia Obama: Girlhood, Race, and Celebrity in News Coverage

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Harry J. Hudome, Sharon R. Mazzarella
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Abstract During her years in the White House, media access to Malia Obama was carefully regulated by her parents, resulting in largely positive, one-dimensional news coverage. Critically analyzing news coverage of Malia Obama during her transition from first daughter to independent young woman college student in the post–White House years of 2016 to 2019, we identify two sets of competing media frames—celebrity girl versus ordinary girl and can-do girl versus Ophelia girl—that paradoxically constructed Malia during these years. We argue that, through these tensions, the press worked to challenge, even undermine, the high-achieving, successful Black girl narrative cultivated during the Obama White House years. The result is a re-celebrification and re-racialization of Malia that evidences a disturbingly regressive and almost structurally retributional tone that differs from coverage of recent White first daughters.
重新庆祝玛利亚·奥巴马:新闻报道中的女孩、种族和名人
摘要在白宫的几年里,媒体对玛利亚·奥巴马的访问受到了父母的严格监管,导致了大部分正面的、一维的新闻报道。通过批判性分析2016年至2019年后白宫时期,玛利亚·奥巴马从第一个女儿转变为独立的年轻女大学生期间的新闻报道,我们发现了两组相互竞争的媒体框架——名人女孩与普通女孩和能干女孩与奥菲莉娅女孩——这些年矛盾地构建了玛利亚。我们认为,通过这些紧张局势,媒体努力挑战甚至破坏奥巴马白宫时期培养的高成就、成功的黑人女孩叙事。其结果是对玛利亚的重新庆祝和种族化,这证明了一种令人不安的倒退和几乎结构性的报复语气,与对最近白人第一个女儿的报道不同。
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