Special Issue: “Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege”: Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (DCQR)
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (DCQR) Special Issue : “Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege” Co-Editors : Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas (Georgia Southern University); Mohan J. Dutta (Massey University); Amardo Rodriguez (Syracuse University) Hard Deadline : July 1, 2019 Submission Length: 1500-2000 words The Communication Discipline has a racism problem. In fact, the discipline has long had a racism problem, silenced by overarching structures that deploy the language of civility to erase conversations. These racist undertones of the discipline, written and co-opted into the articulations of diversity, equity, and inclusion came tumbling out on June 10, 2019, when an editorial written by a Distinguished Scholar of the discipline, Martin Medhurst, for his edited journal, Rhetoric and Public Affairs was widely circulated. In the letter, Professor Medhurst rehashed the oft-used trope of “diversity and merit” to attack the democratizing processes being built by