SRA’s Response to a Tweet about the SRA Blog9/23/2022SRA strongly values work on race and racism, including White racial socialization. Blog posts on similar topics have been published on the SRA website previously. In fact, as you note, JRA published your original paper in a special section on whiteness in our journal and, like all JRA authors, you were invited to submit a blog post. Based on the correspondence we obtained from the Associate Editors of the blog, editorial changes were requested (as is typical in revise and resubmit processes). One request was to address the examples used as the blog did not afford the context which the full paper provided. We apologize for messaging conveying that SRA is uncomfortable with the discussion of whiteness in a negative light, as this is against the core anti-racist principles of SRA. As the Associate Editors could not reach consensus, they requested the SRA Board to assist with the process. However, because we have an autonomous editorial process for both research articles in JRA and SRA blog posts, we referred it back to the SRA Blog Associate Editors to make the final decision. We appreciate that the blog process is a unique platform for presenting research. While we tried to model the SRA blog process much like a journal review process, we acknowledge that this medium requires a different set of expertise and skills, and we are carefully evaluating refinements to the blog process as we move forward. We are working closely with our SRA Blog Editorial Board on this and look forward to sharing the new process soon. |