how any work that needed to be done day after day was meaningless, and that only creating new things was a worthwhile endeavor

slogan that comes with some urgency, coinciding with a narrative about the supposed sho

Computers provide a context for the development of concrete thinking.

blocked by prejudice and discrimination.

There has been a blank around the lives of older women, who report feeling invisible as they age — which is, as it turns out, less feeling than fact.

To engage with the lives of others, white audiences would have to encounter something far more frightening: their irrelevance. They would have to reckon with the fact that the work will not always speak to them, orient them, flatter them with tales of their munificence or infamy, or comfort them with stereotypes.

(Of the seven black actresses to ever win an Academy Award, two played slaves, and one played a maid.)

#OscarsSoWhite,

Only last year, the Texas Board of Education issued new textbooks for some five million public-school students that omitted mentions of Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan and made slavery a side issue in the Civil War.

women — who are still left out of history.

‘‘I’m erasing myself from the narrative/Let future historians wonder/How Eliza reacted when you broke her heart.’’ It’s an acknowledgment of the stories this play cannot fully restore, and of a group — women — who are still left out of history.

#StopErasingBlackPeople and released a statement saying the exhibition ‘‘paints H.I.V. as an issue faced predominantly by white gay men, when in fact the most at-risk group are currently black trans women.’’

#SayHerName movement draws attention to black women believed to be victims of police brutality, like Alexia Christian and Meagan Hockaday, whose deaths received a small fraction of the attention given to Eric Garner or Michael Brown.

black female journalists and activists have been spotlighting how crimes against black women are met by silence and seeming unconcern

Nobel Prizes given to male colleagues and supervisors.

Whose stories are taught and told? Whose suffering is recognized? Whose dead are mourned?

inconvenient people are dismissed, their history, pain and achievements blotted out.

invisible.

until black women on social media began calling out the press for ignoring the story. Many reached for one word — ‘‘erasure’’ — for what they felt was happening. ‘‘Not covering the #Holtzclaw verdict is erasing black women’s lives from notice,’’ one woman tweeted. ‘‘ERASURE IS VIOLENCE.’’ Deborah Douglas, writing for Ebony magazine, argued that not reporting on the case ‘‘continues the erasure of black women from the national conversation on race, police brutality and the right to safety.’’

destroying every trace of them from the city,

amnesia

problem.

"The internet in and of itself is very male and very pale and very English.

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