Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Child Maltreat. 2023 Nov;28(4):550-555. doi: 10.1177/10775595231191394. Epub 2023 Aug 9.
The United States continues to grapple with longstanding policies and systems that have adversely impacted historically marginalized communities who identify (and are racialized) as non-White. These stem from a legacy of structural and systemic racism, and the long-term consequences of sanctioned colonization. This legacy rests upon a field of scholarly research that is similarly fraught with white supremacy. As a field, we must examine the process of producing and publishing the body of evidence that has codified harmful policies and practices. Although racial and ethnic disparities have been discussed for decades in the child welfare and health systems, systemic racism has received comparatively little attention in academic research and journals. In this commentary, the authors detail concrete steps over the coming years that will advance diversity, equity, inclusion and justice through American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children's (APSACs) flagship journal, Child Maltreatment. The journal is committed to anti-racist publication processes, such that the journal pledges to develop procedures, processes, structures, and culture for scholarly research that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in all forms.
美国仍在努力应对长期存在的政策和制度，这些政策和制度对那些自认为（并被种族化）为非白人的历史上处于边缘地位的社区产生了不利影响。这些政策和制度源于结构性和系统性种族主义的遗留问题，以及得到认可的殖民化的长期后果。这一遗产建立在一个同样充满白人至上主义的学术研究领域之上。作为一个领域，我们必须审视产生和发表证据的过程，这些证据已经将有害政策和做法编纂成法典。尽管在儿童福利和卫生系统中，种族和族裔差异已经讨论了几十年，但系统性种族主义在学术研究和期刊中相对较少受到关注。在这篇评论中，作者详细说明了未来几年的具体步骤，这些步骤将通过美国虐待儿童专业协会（APSAC）的旗舰期刊《儿童虐待》来推进多样性、公平、包容和正义。该杂志致力于反种族主义出版流程，因此承诺为促进多样性、公平、包容和正义的各种形式的学术研究制定程序、流程、结构和文化。
