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two pages a month to numerous constituencies: blacks, women, third
world, multicultural, Jewish, and lesbian-bisexual-gay. But when it failed
to publish an editorial condemning the Rodney King verdict, angry
students attacked the building, threatened a staff photographer, removed
the paper from newsstands, and called for a boycott of advertisers. The
demonstrators demanded a minority co-editor, an editorship for women
of colour, separate elections for minority editors, and seats on the
executive board. The editor-in-chief accepted all this, saying he had been
threatened with violence and mass resignations. New York Times B8
(May 27, 1992).
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Styron (1967); Clarke (1968) (black criticism of Styron); Gates (1991).
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Los Angeles Times F6 (April 23, 1992). A Canadian male critic reviewing
five exhibits of photographs of women by men questioned "why men are
suddenly so fascinated with these issues" and proceeded to attack each:
Chagnon's "positive images" imply that all is well, that women are
now being accepted as equals and that no further struggle is required.
it is unfortunate that Mitchell seems to have passed up an opportunity to
deal with how he felt about not seeing his kids during the day . . .
The Birth Report appears to be a celebration of white, middle-class,
heterosexual couples, a project that essentially maintains the status
quo.
Replacing out-dated and counter-productive cliches with new positive
ones still ultimately leaves you with prescriptions.
he is still using the porn images and perhaps to gain a certain degree of
attention and notoriety, still using the porn controversy.
The reviewer concluded disarmingly: "I don't want to imply that
'women's problems' should not be addressed by men." Samuels (1985).
Indians on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation staged a four-month
protest against the white manager of radio station KILI, established by the
American Indian Movement in 1989 to preserve the Oglala Sioux language
and culture. He had lived on the reservation since 1975, was
married to a Lakota, and taught social science at the tribal college. Los
Angeles Times A5 (August 31, 1992).
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Santiago (1983). Nineteenth-century abolitionists wrote novels in the
form of "slave memoirs" in order to enhance their propaganda value.
Gates (1991). Such ventriloquism continues. The screenwriter for a 1971
film on ecology produced by the Southern Baptist Radio and Television
Commission had Chief Seattle tell his people in 1854: "I have seen a
thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairies left by the white man who shot
them from a passing train." Susan Jeffers repeated the phrase in her
children's book Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle,
which reached fifth place on the New York Times Best Seller list and sold
250,000 copies in its first year. Told there were no bison within 600 miles
of Puget Sound and the railroad only reached it 15 years after Chief
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