This week, Latino Student Union wants to compile an article about Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican cultural holiday (celebrated elsewhere as well but primarily Mexican). How do I let the voices of those students come through, but still print an article in a feature article format? Or are my ideas about feature article formats discriminatory? What I'm hoping to do is find a writer who can weave together the smaller articles in a way that preserves that writing as quotes in authentic voices.

After I was already thinking about this, this morning in Environmental History Jan Bender Shetler pointed out that academic writers in the global south often don't get published in journals on their topics because they write with different voices, and because the academic networks are in northern countries. It's unjust, she said, that African historians from Africa are excluded from academic circles of African history because greater efforts aren't made to bring scholars to conferences in the north and be publish them as they want to be published, in their own voices.
posted by celestial @ 9:50 AM