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Saturday, June 10, 2017
Denton Record-Chronicle
Journal criticized for not consulting black scholars
getting ahead in the publish-or-
perish world of academia.
The omission left many won-
dering: Do black minds matter?
“This is not an abstract philo-
sophical question. There are real
goods at stake when we talk about
which voices count,” said Yale
University philosopher Chris Le-
bron, who recently wrote a book
on Black Lives Matter and wrote
one of the letters to the journal.
The journal is a peer-re-
viewed academic quarterly that
explores topics such as sociology,
history, economics and race. It
devoted part of its latest issue to
a “symposium” on Black lives
Matter, inviting three white
scholars to contribute articles on
racial bias, law enforcement and
the right to personal security.
UCLA political scientist Mel-
vin Rogers, one of the black
scholars who raised objections
with the journal, called the lack
movement is trying to respond
to. The signal this sends to schol-
ars of color that care about this is
that they, too, are invisible.”
The journal editors respond-
ed: “We accept the point elo-
quently and forcefully made by
our colleagues that this is an es-
pecially grave oversight in light
of the specific focus of Black
lives Matter on the extent to
which African-Americans have
been erased and marginalized
from public life.”
In April, the American His-
torical Review apologized after
allowing a professor with views
seen as supporting white su-
premacy to review a book on
school segregation.
Rogers said he sees a dearth of
minority scholars in major jour-
nals. Buthe added that because of
the common practice of blind
peer review — where articles con-
sidered for publication are sub-
mitted and critiqued anonymous-
ly, something that was not done in
this case—there is no clear way to
know whether bias is to blame.
Some scholars suggested that
journals are reflecting and com-
pounding a larger problem in ac-
ademia: the small number of
black scholars. Two percent of
faculty members at the nation’s
top institutions are black, accord-
ing to Ivory A. Toldson, editor of
the Journal ofNegro Education.
Toldson said the journal inci-
dent has exposed “a huge racial
blind spot” that goes beyond one
publication.
“It’s pervasive throughout the
academy,” said Toldson, a psy-
chology professor at Howard
University. Journal editors “are
gatekeepers. They can make or
break someone’s career. And
they’re making decisions they
don’t want to admit are loaded
with racial biases.”
By Errin Haines Whack
Associated Press
A leading journal of political
philosophy took up the Black
lives Matter movement in its
June issue without a single con-
tribution from ablack academic,
triggering an outcry from Afri-
can-American scholars.
Many black scholars said
they felt insulted and ignored,
and some took to social media to
express their indignation. Two
wrote open letters to the Jour-
nal of Political Philosophy.
The journal’s editors were
apologetic for what they conced-
ed was an “especially grave over-
sight” and vowed to increase di-
versity on its editorial board and
in its pages.
The episode highlights what
some intellectuals say is a lack of
diverse voices in the influential
research journals where getting
a paper accepted is often vital to
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Bernard Thomas, The Herald-Sun/AP
Students cast shadows on a wall May 14 before a commence-
ment in Durham, N.C. In its June issue, a journal of political
philosophy took up the Black Lives Matter movement without
any contribution from a black academic, triggering an outcry
from African-American scholars.
of black voices “especially egre-
gious” in this case.
“You have a major social together a symposium ... and
movement that comes about be- construct it in such a way that
cause of police violence and a replicates the very problem the
failure of the state to respond ef-
fectively” Rogers said. “You put
BRIEFLY
Oklahoma officers kill man, sparking protest
ACROSS THE NATION
Kansas City, Mo.
Man accused of hate
crime in death of Indian
Los Angeles
Polanski’s victim
pleads to end case
means to restrain the man, given
his fragile mental state.
The shooting comes about
three weeks after jurors acquit-
ted a white Tulsa police officer of
manslaughter in the fatal shoot-
ing of an unarmed black man
last year. The verdict in favor of
Betty Jo Shelby, who was al-
lowed to return to the force,
sparked peaceful protests and
calls from community leaders
and family members of 40-year-
old Terence Crutcher to demand
By Justin Juozapavicius
Associated Press
Three
Oklahoma law enforcement offi-
cers fatally shot a black man
while trying to pick him up for a
mental health issue on Friday,
triggering a protest on a city
street that prompted dozens of
officers in riot gear showing
force.
TULSA, Okla.
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A man accused in a bar
shooting in suburban Kansas
City that left one Indian national
dead and another wounded was
indicted by a federal grand jury
on hate crime charges, the U.S.
Justice Department announced
Friday.
The indictment against Ad-
am Purinton, 52, of Olathe, Kan-
sas, comes after a Feb. 22 shoot-
ing at Austin’s Bar and Grill in
Olathe, Kansas. Witnesses have
said Purinton, who is white,
yelled “get out of my country” at
two 32-year-old Indian nation-
als, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and
Alok Madasani, before he began
shooting. Kuchibhotla died and
Madasani was injured. A third
man, Ian Grillot, was wounded
when he tried to intervene.
An affidavit released in
March said Madasani told de-
tectives the gunman asked if
their “status was legal” before he
opened fire.
Roman Polanski’s sexual as-
sault victim made an impas-
sioned plea Friday to end the
court case against the fugitive
director, saying she felt more
abused by the legal justice sys-
tem than by the man who she
said drugged, raped and sodom-
ized her when she was 13.
“The trauma of the ordeal
that followed was so great that,
you know, the brief encounter
with him that evening that was
unpleasant just faded and paled,”
Samantha Geimer said outside a
courtroom in Los Angeles Supe-
rior Court “It just wasn’t as trau-
matic for me as everybody would
like to believe it was.”
Geimer asked Judge Scott
Gordon to dismiss the case or sen-
tence the Oscar winner to the six
weeks he served in prison during
a court-ordered evaluation before
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Tulsa County sheriff’s depu-
ties were attempting to pick up
the 29-year-old man near his
house, but the man walked
away and to a nearby conve-
nience store instead, Tulsa po-
lice spokesman Leland Ashley
said.
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more accountability from the
police.
Cory Young, Tulsa World /AP
Tulsa resident Angie Pitts, left, tries to calm down others as
law enforcement officials investigate Friday near 46th Street
North and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Tulsa, Okla.
Cleo Harris, who stood be-
hind the yellow tape that au-
thorities used to cordon off the
Two deputies and a Tulsa po-
lice officer opened fire before the
man could enter the store when
they discovered that he was car-
rying two knives and became
concerned about the safety of
the people who were inside the
business, Ashley said.
The deputies who fired are
white and the police officer is
black. All three have been put on
scene, said blacks like him who
live on the city’s north side are
fed up with what they perceive
as a double standard in how the
city is policed.
“People are upset, they’re
tired,” the 50-year-old Harris
said. “Black residents in north
Tulsa want to be treated the
same way [police] treat resi-
dents on the south side.”
administrative leave. Police Some shouted, “Hands up, don’t
didn’t release the name of the shoot!”
man who was shot, and it’s not At least two dozen officers
clear how many times he was and deputies wearing riot gear
struck. assembled in the store’s parking
Dozens of black residents lot. The crowd of residents even-
gathered at an intersection near tually dispersed,
the store within minutes of the Some residents questioned
shooting on Tulsa’s north side, why officers didn’t use less lethal
he fled the country on the eve of
sentencing in 1978.
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