And in interviews over the last week, more than a dozen minority elected officials and political strategists voiced concerns about what they said was the dearth of representation in Mr. Kerry's inner circle and worried that he was taking black and Hispanic votes for granted.
Swinging between the two extremes of dearth of representation on the one hand, and politically regressive presence on the other, the history of the black image in film has been a simple story of conflict.
The Law Society recently reported that, although 59.1% of new admissions are women, there is still a dearth of female representation at senior level.
In 2010, a federal judge in New York City convened a task force of prominent immigration lawyers, academics and advocates to tackle a longstanding problem: the dearth of legal representation for immigrants fighting deportation.
The dearth of minority representation in upper management has been attributed to a number of causes, including economic disadvantage, which limits access to the educational, cultural and social capital needed for getting up the corporate ladder, and majority groups clinging to social hierarchies that preserve their status, power and privilege, thus locking minorities out of positions of power.
Though Vanity Fair's article eventually goes on to speak about how outrageous it is that there is still such a dearth of female representation in the late-night world, nothing it says could speak louder than the unintentionally revealing photo that accompanies the article itself.
True, this is a much deeper dislocation, fed by issues as diverse as our overly technocratic language, a dearth of working-class representation, and our record on immigration and globalisation in government.
Another study gives more color by providing a grim view suggesting 80% of M&A fails at the implementation stage due to ineffective change management, lack of HR representation, dearth of HR skill set, and inadequate roadmaps.
A current shortcoming in the more rigorous analysis of racial disparities in HNSCC is a dearth of study cohorts with adequate representation of minority patients.
One of the main reasons for the dearth of regular Joes and Janes in contemporary literature is a lack of representation in the press (and sadly, I include the Guardian in this generalisation).
Abstraction grows out of representation.
