[lbo-talk] Black women and Nader

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Joseph Wanzala jwanzala at hotmail.com, Thu Sep 23 20:14:13 PDT 2004:
>Essence is a lifestyle magazine, a black 'Cosmopilitan' essentially, 
>catering to bourgeoise or wanna-be bourgeoise black women, who are a 
>natural  constituency of the DLC. These poll results are therefore 
>not surprising at  all. Black women, like any other demographic 
>group are not monolithic and  highly differentiated politically, and 
>a similar poll of a cross section of  radical black women would 
>certainly yield a very different result.

<blockquote>[R]eaders of magazines aimed at African Americans are not 
economically similar to the typical African American. In 1989, the 
Simmons Market Research Bureau did a survey revealing that readers of 
Ebony, Essence, and Jet magazines earn 41% to 82% more than the 
typical African American (2,4).

(2) Economic Report of the President, United States Government 
Printing Office, Washington, February, 1991. Table B30, p.320. . . .
(4) Simmons Market Research Bureau, "1989 Study of Media and Markets: 
Publications: Total Audiences," M-1, 1989, pp. vii-viii.  (National 
Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical 
Professionals, Inc. and Institute for Gay & Lesbian Strategic 
Studies, "Beyond Biased Samples: Challenging the Myths on the 
Economic Status of Lesbians and Gay Men," <a 
href="http://www.noglstp.org/economic.html">1994</a>)</blockquote>
-- 
Yoshie

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