Forgive me Professor Babbili if I have offended.  I feel thrilled and
privileged to be part of this project.  Thank you for the opportunity to
clarify.

For years now, verbally and in everything I write, and in the AEJMC
MAC/CSW session in which I asked Profs. Rush & Oukrop to make me a part
of their next project -- I keep saying that for inclusion and accuracy
we need to say White women if our sample/theory is really about White
women OR we need to say women and minority men if that is what we really
mean.

Though some suggest that "women and minorities" suggests that women of
color are counted twice, I have yet to find a minority woman who feels
that way.  I vaguely remember when I heard the working title of the
Monograph from Prof. Oukrop that I sighed and said I wish it were,
"White women and minorities," or "women and minority men" but that we
have to pick our battles (I was really happy the monograph was going to
finally go through and with my remarks in tact.).  Perhaps I should have
made a bigger issue of it and should have called you personally but
teaching 4 preparations along with all the extra duty/underpay that
working at an HBCU entails, I didn't perceive it to be
appropriate/permissible for me to approach you directly, nor did I want
to seem ungrateful to the senior authors for including me in this
important project.

I have gotten close to a dozen emails from African American MAC women
who all say they feel as I do on this issue -- invisible and uncounted
when we hear/read "women and minorities."  I wanted to let everyone know
the victory both personally and "for the cause" in the publication of
the Monograph.  However, I wanted to let folks know that I was not
"perpetrating," as we say in the culture, by having anything to do with
that label in the title.

Please forgive me if I made it appear that I argued against the title
with you personally.  In an attempt to clarify this misperception I have
sent this explanation to the MAC list, as I did the announcement.

Again I am so happy to be part of the project, grateful that you saw fit
to publish it and delighted that you have arranged for a panel at the
next conference.  If there is something else I can do to make amends
regarding any misunderstanding, please let me know.

With Warm Regards,
E-K. Daufin

-----Original Message-----
From: Anantha Babbili [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 10:23 AM
To: E. K. Daufin
Cc: Stephen R Lacy; [log in to unmask]; Carol Oukrop
Subject: Re: New Monograph Announcement

Prof. Daufin:

Thank you for your e-mail to AEJMC members on your Monograph. As the
editor
I am a bit confused by your implication that the title you recommended
was not
accepted by the editor. I don't recall the title being discussed with me

by any of the
authors of the study. Please clarify.

Anantha Babbili
Editor, J&C Monographs

Anantha S. Babbili, Ph.D.
Dean & Professor
College of Mass Communication
Seigenthaler Center for  First Amendment Studies
Box 51 Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132, USA

Phone: 615-898-2195
Fax: 615-898-5682
E-mail: [log in to unmask]



E. K. Daufin wrote:

>I am happy to announce the release of my first (co-authored) monograph
>on which we worked for almost two years.
>
>
>
>"Junior Scholars in Search of Equity for Women and Minorities,"
>Journalism & Communication Monographs (a quarterly devoted to Research
>in Journalism and Mass Communication", Vol. 6 No. 4, Winter 2005.
>
>
>
>The editor has asked the senior authors and me to do a panel session at
>the AEJMC annual convention in San Antonio this August.  I wanted the
>title to say either: "White Women and Minorities," or "Women and
>Minority Men," for clarity and inclusion but I didn't win that battle!
>
>
>
>FYI,
>
>Dr. E-K. Daufin
>
>
>
>

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