4. Of course, black men were feared, but root problem for some TNR writers was black women, who after all produced black men.
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5. Sorry, on point # 3, I should have said TNR in the 1990s, not 1980s.
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6. The infamous welfare reform cover is a good example of how race & gender (and class!) intersectedpic.twitter.com/AFt9wiGQDZ
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7. The other addendum to TNC is that it's worth thinking about geographic & social space TNR occupied in Washington, DC.
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8. From 1950 onwards, TNR was an overwhelmingly white magazine in a majority African-American city.
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9. The Peretzian years overlapped exactly with the rise of local black politics in DC, Marion Barry & attendant controversies.
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10. One of the failures of TNR is that it only rarely engaged in the Washington of most actual Washington residents
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11.While structural factors were at work, there is always room for human agency: did TNR ever have an outreach program to Howard University?
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12. Of course, other DC publications had fraught relationship with city's black population: Washington Post as an example.
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13. But Washington Post made a real effort, however flawed, to bring in black voices & black editors. An effort TNR attacked & mocked.
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14. As TNC mentioned, one of the flawed TNR articles on racism was Ruth Shalit's attack on Washington Post's attempt to diversify newsroom
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