Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Understanding and Dismantling Privilege arose out of a need to share ongoing research and practices that are at the forefront of the Annual White Privilege Conference. The annual White Privilege Conference has grown into the premier venue for activists, scholars, teachers, and students to engage in challenging dialogues around privilege and oppression.  Understanding and Dismantling Privilege will provide a forum for extending theses dialogues, sharing the strategies and ideas with a wider audience, and providing a space for publishing work that advances social justice for an interdisciplinary audience.

 

This new journal brings together articles, reflections, creative work, curriculum, tools and strategies. Like the WPC, the journal is committed to examining not only white privilege and oppression, but the intersections of systems of privilege based on race, gender, sexuality, class, and other axes of inequality. Bringing together voices across generations and workplaces, the journal is committed to advancing social justice and dismantling privilege.

 

Mission

An interdisciplinary journal focusing on the intersectional aspects of privilege, Understanding and Dismantling Privilege works to bridge academia and practice, highlight activism, and offers a forum for creative introspection on issues of inequity, power and privilege. 

Goals

1. To create a forum for research and creative work that critically examines issues of privilege, power, oppression, white supremacy, and social justice.  

2. To encourage examination of the intersections of systems of privilege and oppression, including but not limited to race/ethnicity, sex/gender, sexuality, class, nationality and ability/disability.

3. To provide a space for self-reflection, bridging the personal and political.

4. To bridge theory and practice we will provide a forum for sharing curriculum, programming, tools, strategies, and best practices.

5. To foster interdisciplinary dialogue.

6. To encourage the development of and provide opportunities for learning from youth voices.

 

 

Section Policies

Conference Keynote Addresses

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Research Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Tools & Strategies

Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Creative Work & Self-Reflection

Checked Open Submissions Unchecked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Youth Voices

Editors
  • Daryl Miller, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

The refereeing process for the journal will double blind:  neither the author nor the referee are provided each other’s identity.  ‘Double blind’ refereeing cannot be guaranteed if the author uses the same title on their paper that they use at the WPC. In general, it is expected that each paper will be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers.

Role of the Referee
Referees are requested to observe the following guidelines:
1. Expertise: Papers are not always sent to a referee whose field is identical to the subject matter of that paper. You don’t have to be precisely qualified in a field to be a constructive referee. In fact, an excellent paper will speak beyond its narrowly defined field. If, however, a paper is so distant from your field that you do not feel qualified to judge its merits, please return it to the publishing manager for the journal, who will locate another referee.
2. Confidentiality: Referees receive unpublished work, which must be treated as confidential until published. They should destroy all electronic and printed copies of the draft paper and referee report once they have received confirmation that their reports have been received by the publishing manager (in case we can’t open the report files you send us). Referees must not disclose to others which papers they have refereed; nor are they to share those papers with any other person.
3. Conflict of Interest: Referees must declare any conflict of interest or any other factor which may affect their independence—in cases for instance, where they have received a paper of a colleague or an intellectual opponent. In cases of conflict of interest, please notify the publishing manager of your inability to referee a particular paper.
4. Full Explanation: Critical or negative judgments must be fully supported by detailed reference to evidence from the paper under review or other relevant sources.
5. Plagiarism and Copyright: If a referee considers that a paper may contain plagiarism or that it might breach another party’s copyright, they should notify the publishing manager for the journal, providing the relevant citations to support their claim.

If you would like to referee papers submitted to WPC Journal, contact us with your professional details, areas of expertise and contact details. If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for papers within your expertise, we will contact you.


 

Publication Frequency

Inagural edition August 2010.
Subsequent editions to be published each Winter and Summer.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 


UDP journal is a project of the annual White Privilege Conference, a program of the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS).

Disclaimer
While the advice and information in this journal is believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors, the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.  Views expressed by authors do not necessarily represent the views of the Editors, Editorial Board, Reviewers, WPC, Matrix Center, nor UCCS.  

Copyright
Authors have the option to license their published work under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. To view a copy of this license, refer to published works or visit http://creativecommons.org/choose/   or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.