Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Nana Yaw

“Other examples of hidden institutional ethnocentrism can be found in the channels of academic communication, such as journals. Howitt and Owusu- Bempah (1994) report that they ‘have been told by white journal editors that the language we use in academic papers is unacceptable and has to be toned- down or removed as a condition of acceptance for publication’ (p. 136). Asking for a change in tone, streamlining arguments and other revisions can be used as an instrument to censor papers that use a different voice. This is not censorship in a crude way but it expresses the ‘repressive tolerance’ of Western academia, according to which papers are accepted as long as they are palatable to the mainstream.” Teo and Febbraro (2003)
http://www.yorku.ca/tteo/Teo2003Feb.pdf