The more I think about it, the more I imagine that Claire Huxtable of "The Cosby Show" is someone who lived what almost all of my friends would call their ideal life situation. She had it all: a successful career that fulfilled her; a husband who had his own successful, fulfilling career; healthy, relatively normal children; and a safe and relatively happy home. It sounds simple, but since the second wave of the feminist movement (1960s-1980s), it has been the ultimate goal of many women to find a fulfilling balance between ones professional and family life. And that balance is extremely difficult to achieve for most of the women I know.
Now, young black women (and all women) have a real life version of Claire Huxtable on the national stage. We love her, and we are waiting to see how the world will receive her, this woman we have all dreamed of being.
I want to link to my friend Mandy's response to my last blog "The Momification of Michelle Obama".
Mandy's Response
She points out some of the amazing things Michelle Obama has accomplished, while also giving her own take on the issue.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Maybe momification is something to be proud of?
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"(And all women)". I don't think the 'sisterhood is universal' idea applies here. American Indian women I think would include themselves as perceiving a woman in the White House as First Lady they could respect and relate to, but I don't think that American Indian women, if they could be surveyed, would say that their experiences with race are parallel. There has been no Claire H. in popular culture that we would link to American Indian women. The images of American Indian women in popular culture are usually Pocahontas, and/or Sacajewea, which is to say they are at least two hundred years old. There was an American INdian woman who was married to a prominent U.S. Senator, who was not an American Indian, who did much to gain access for American Indians in the U.S. government and Sovereign Nations, but that has been awhile. LaDonna Harris was her name. It took me a minute to come up with it. Not really a household name, so to speak.
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