Pili i ke Kanaka with Dr. Sakaria Laisene Aulelua-Toomey

September 24, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Dean Hall 6/7 ACCESS Lounge/Zoom Add to Calendar

Title: Identifying and Dismantling Barriers to Race Scholars and Their Scholarship. Abstract: Where are your research and perspectives valued? This question is the driving force of a line of work that examines how race scholars and marginalized scholars navigate academia. This talk consists of two field-experiments that uncover concrete ways by which racism is maintained and reinforced in social science publications through the expression of and reaction to White scientific values. First, I examine a mode in which scholars express White scientific values through research communication. That is, I examine whether describing the same exact research as either conducted using White samples vs. diverse samples shapes how psychology Ph.D. students communicate about the generalizability of the research. Second, I shed light into means in which scholars react to White scientific values through journal engagement. That is, I investigate whether the presence of White journal editorial boards (compared to diverse editorial boards), the typical representation of mainstream journal editorial boards, elicit expectations of discrimination towards race scholars (but not non-race scholars), and ultimately, whether such expectations push those race scholars to publish elsewhere. For each project, I conclude with evidence-based policy recommendations that provide concrete solutions for how to reduce these barriers to race scholars and their scholarship in mainstream social science journals (e.g., diversifying editorial boards and standardizing sample reporting procedures). On Zoom and in Person. Register Here: https://go.hawaii.edu/aSN


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Hui 'Āina Pilipili College of Social Sciences, Mānoa Campus

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