"It's Not Us, It's You: Why Isn't Research on Minority Workers Appearing in Our 'Top-Tier' Journals?"--A Reflection

This next response to Ruggs' article, by Diaz and Bergman, addresses a few issues in the main article. 

First, they argue that research is being conducted about minority populations, but it's not being published in the 7 journals the articles looked at.  They provide a list of other, second-tier journals where this research is being published.  And the authors issue a call to editors of journals to accept this research, even though it doesn't always have top-tier quality samples or theories.

Second, they argue that there's a problem with conflating minority status and marginalization.  They argue that there are some situations where minorities are not marginalized.  However, they don't make the point that there are some situations where marginalization happens not because of these identity categories.  I would have liked to see this.

From this article, I was reminded of many of the things I've discussed in my WGST courses about feminist research being pushed to the margins and not published in top-tier journals.  It's all so political.

I do think these authors are right that we can't just assume that research on minority workers isn't being done because it's not in journals.  Perhaps there is a lot of this research but the journals aren't accepting it.  If that's the case, then this is all really an argument for journal editors.  Hmmm.  I wonder if this journal will publish more on minority workers, rather than just publishing a meta-critique of the lack of publications :)

Diaz, Ismael and Mindy E Bergman. "It's Not Us, It's You: Why Isn't Research on Minority Workers Appearing in Our 'Top-Tier' Journals?"  Industrial and Organizational Psychology 6 (2013): 70-75.