Good scholarship isn’t easy for anyone. Preparing work for publication isn’t easy for anyone. But for BIPOC scholars in a field like #C18th studies, the stakes of demonstrating your fluency in unquestionable critical idioms are heightened.
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So it makes perfect sense that, in preparing a piece for peer review, you’d use your limited word count to show you’ve done all that work. And then it’s my job as editor to write the letter that says, in effect, while you’ve been painstakingly establishing your credentials,
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others who already enjoy that status have decided it would be GREAT to bring more BIPOC voices into the field! And in order for your (BIPOC) voice to be included, I’m gonna need you to do some more homework.
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This isn’t a problem that can be solved by tweaking day-to-day editorial praxis, though it may call for some best practices in terms of editorial evaluation, correspondence with authors, etc.
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But there’s a critical vantage point on this foundational, structural problem of academic discipline(s)—how race continues to demarcate the field’s defining exclusions, even in the name of racial “inclusivity”—that journal editors are uniquely privy to,
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which makes it part of our job as editors to recognize the problem, understand it, and be part of the structural solution to it. /ok I’m done
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Replying to @zugenia
We should try to do a panel sometime of what we see as BIPOC editors of mainstream humanities journals and what is going on...
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Replying to @dorothyk98 @zugenia
I would love to see this. It would be major to have BIPOC humanities editors all in one place
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Replying to @JonathanHsy @dorothyk98
We should talk with
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Yes! In fact we’re having a board meeting next week to discuss precisely the item of panels for next MLA. May I bring this to that meeting and then follow up? (says Secretary
@janineutell) Or would you prefer some other mechanism? We’re also considering proposing a plenary sesh3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
Also, it would be interesting to know the numbers for BIPOC editors of mainstream humanities journals... b/c we were trying to count in medieval... and it's basically me. Which we were like, what, wait, really... but yes.
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