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 > > > > --