FAIR News: Open Letter Regarding Discriminatory Practices by Literary Journals
FAIR News: Open Letter Regarding Discriminatory Practices by Literary Journals
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Dear Friends of FAIR,
As promised, we have more information regarding last week’s newsletter, and we need your help. Information about discriminatory submission requirements was recently reported to FAIR about federally-funded literary journals. While many journals offer to waive submission fees in order to accommodate authors and artists facing economic hardships, many are unfortunately conflating economic need with race, skin color, or ancestry, thereby providing differential pricing to authors and artists based on their immutable traits. When entities receive Federal financial assistance, this discriminatory practice violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (and, as applicable, the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, from which Title VI is derived).
Following the decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard/UNC, the law is clear: “[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it. And the Equal Protection Clause … applies ‘without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality’ – it is ‘universal in [its] application.’”
We are proud to have sent formal legal letters to 17 literary journals to notify them of their violations and to ask them to amend their submission requirements in order to treat all authors and artists equally. But we are not stopping there.
Nearly all literary journals currently use Submittable.com to receive submissions for publication. Submittable.com’s Customer Terms of Service require its customers to adhere to the rights of third parties. So we are asking influential thought leaders to join us in signing an open letter to Submittable.com’s CEO, asking that the company notify its literary journal customers that they may not provide differential treatment to users based on race, skin color, or national origin. We hope that once the journals in question correct their submission requirements, they will continue to accept submissions via the Submittable.com platform freely.
We recognize the vital role that literary journals play in amplifying the voices and work of up-and-coming authors and artists. We hope you agree that all individuals should be treated equally and should not face discriminatory treatment based on their skin color or ancestry.
Please join us and so many influential thought leaders in signing our open letter below.
Warmly,
The Team at the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism
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It's a good letter--I signed--but there are so many more than 17 journals doing this! Check chillsubs, Duosoma, Published to Death https://publishedtodeath.blogspot.com/
and others!
The goal always is the same, whether old-fashioned white racism, which seems rather out of style today, or the new kind of favoritism. These are always the same persons operating. Anti-black racism is still practiced by lots of persons in the U. S. South, by the way. I encounter these persons in Florida. The white racist absolutely needs to have supremacy over blacks. It is as natural to them are breathing air. But now I have noticed that there is this sort of preference, which is expressed as preference for blacks over whites. I never thought I would live to see this. These are just new kinds of racism that favor some other group, such as "blacks," although I am not sure if that includes Caribbeans or African blacks, so I cannot imagine what that actually means. The goal is to suppress one group over another. Whether it is rich over poor, 'Woke' over conservative, or black over white, it is always exactly the same goal. It does not matter whether whites are favored or blacks are favored over whites. It is enforced inequality. One group is automatically favored over the other. It has the same effect. The effect is that of making one group more powerful or influential than the other. There are many ways of making us unequal and not recognizing our commonality as humans, but they are all fundamentally the same. Perhaps one of the most basic human urges is the urge to be powerful, to have somebody you can control or oppress. This has been with us for thousands of years and it is all the same, isn't it?