In fact, wage inequality affects women of color the hardest so inclusion not erasure was in order.
As Andrew Rotter notes in Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (2008), World War II witnessed the weakening, if not erasure, of distinctions between combatants and non-combatants, notably during LeMay's firebombing of Tokyo in March 1945 but in many other raids as well (Rotterdam and Coventry and Hamburg and Dresden, among so many others).
So maybe what the piece needs isn't erasure, but a footnote.
It is not an erasure of gender.
Couldn't it be, for instance, not the erasure of gender, but the proliferation of it?
Professor Cizek praised Georgia for conducting the analysis, saying that many states do not monitor erasure rates to check for potential cheating.
Widowed twice before she turned forty, left with five children to support, Kirk cast aside her old name, Eleanor Maria Easterbrook Ames, and reinvented herself as a sharp-elbowed reporter for the New York Standard — "Not an erasure, not an addition, no alterations," she once warned a meddling editor.
When women have been restored to the historical record and to sociological, political, and anthropological accounts from which they have been omitted, eclipsed (Smith 1978), or relegated to a walk-on role (Novick 1988, 497), it often has become clear that the problem was not just erasure but systematic distortion.
In fact, tranquility goes hand in hand with frenzy in every acceleration of technology, and so the future, for an artist in 2028, will be something like the acceleration of 2028 superimposed over the tranquility of 1908, not an erasure of the earlier quality.
Pluralism isn't relativism; it isn't the erasure of differences, or even its embrace.
But the popular perception that rap songs are non-fictional, first-person, straightforward accountings of the actions of their mostly-black performers is not only an erasure of the artistry and complexity of the art form (with its roots in the erasure of black people's artistry and intellectual complexity).
