The New Yorker archivist said she launched her extraordinary critique, New York magazine reported, to move forward an important conversation about the role of women and people of color at elite media institutions.
Her Twitter thread begins as follows:
Her Twitter thread begins as follows:
Let’s talk about racism! Most white people at prestigious magazines don’t ever want to talk about race or diversity at all. Why? It's primarily because they’ve been allowed to exist in a world where their mastheads resemble member registries at Southern country clubs circa 1950. ...Erin Overbey: Truth to power.White people are rarely actively racist at these publications. They simply never bother to challenge the status quo—typically out of concern that they will be inconvenienced or made to feel uncomfortable. And so the status quo often remains entrenched for literally decades. ...
In the last 15 years at the @NewYorker, during the tenure of editor-in-chief David Remnick (author of a bio on Obama), less than 0.01% of print feature & critics pieces have ever been edited by a Black editor.
