Editorial Vision Research Articles

C. F. Richardson and the Houston Informer's Fight for Racial Equality in the 1920s

This research attempts to partially rectify the void in 1920s black press scholarship by examining the editorial vision of one of the South's most prominent, eloquent, and activist publishers, Clifton F. Richardson of the Houston Informer. What set Richardson apart from many African American publishers of the time and makes him particularly worthy of study is the fact that he did not view the three leading strains of black thought of the period—Garvey's black pride rhetoric, the Du Boisian activist vision of civil rights, or Washington's promotion of uplift—as being incompatible or in opposition. Although he rarely mentioned the men by name in the Informer, Richardson's personal values and the social conditions in which he lived led him to weave aspects of these three social visions together to create an editorial agenda coupled with civic action in an effort to bring tangible change to Houston's black population.

THE MAKING OF JOURNALS: A RESPONSE TO THE COMMENTARIES

Having been involved over the years in the setting-up of quite a few Addiction Commentary series, it comes as something of a shock to find oneself at the receiving end of the process. The eight commentaries (Babor 2006; Buhringer 2006; Calafat 2006; Jaffe 2006; Room 2006; Schuckit 2006; Walmsley et al. 2006; West 2006) on ‘Addiction: a journal and its Invisible College’ (Edwards 2006) that are published in this issue of the journal are, however, so personally generous and so rich in ideas as to make the role reversal an entirely pleasurable experience. What follows is an attempt to identify three main themes emerging from the comments. Several commentators emphasize the importance of individual editorial vision and leadership in fostering the success of a journal. People will always matter for the success of a journal. An important insight is, however, offered by Jaffe (2006) when he points out that Addiction has matured towards a style of collective leadership. This journal is committed to a mode of operation which supports individual creativity but which is, at the same time, based strongly in the idea of an editorial collective. We want the management of this Journal to be a widely shared enterprise with a large cast of stakeholders involved. That joint individual/collective formula is a policy predicated on the belief that a journal which is run, in many ways, as a cooperative, is most likely to make good use of individuals, nurture their creativity and build fruitful relations with the invisible college. Broad involvement is what helps make the college actual. There is no contradiction between those two complementary perspectives—quite the contrary, in fact. The role and influence of the individual Editor is, however, traditionally more readily perceived and acknowledged than the contribution made to the success of a journal by its capacity for team-building and a supporting structure. Babor (2006) and Room (2006) identify accurately the historical origins of the phrase ‘invisible college’, and Schuckit (2006) rightly emphasizes the core importance, in many different settings, of understanding the needs of one's audience. Our invisible college undoubtedly has many different disciplinary, professional and national sectors within it, but recent decades have seen the gradual emergence of a field of endeavour with a shared identity as addiction science (Edwards 2002). There is an invisible college of addiction researchers to which many individuals belong, whatever the national learned society to which they pay their subscriptions, their national base or their discipline of origin, and the college to which this Journal tries to relate is increasingly globalized. Helping to build that sense of contact and cooperation, of belonging to the larger whole with which we identify, the construction of a shared ethical framework: these are aspects of community building in which all our journals may be expected to play a part. West (2006) usefully challenges any accidental slide towards complacency, and Jaffe (2006) reminds us that journals can sink quite easily on the incoming tide. Futurology is dangerous where journals are concerned. It is all too possible that as one struts the deck some frogman is, at that very moment, attaching a limpet mine to the hull. It is difficult to see around all the corners of the electronic revolution, free access and the impact of such inventions as research assessment exercises. Babor (2006) identifies several important conditions for future success. What one might perhaps take from the conjoint wisdom of these commentaries is that any journal which hopes to have a future had better serve the needs of its invisible college accurately, make good use of individuals and of the editorial collective within a well-constructed and always evolutionary system, be proactive and constantly scan the horizon, avoid the limpets and enjoy a good relationship with publishers who share its values and where, as Walmsley et al. (2006) put it, ‘there is lots of plain old-fashioned good fun working with stimulating friends and colleagues’. That is my sense of what, taken together, these perspicacious commentaries in essence tell, and the last point is as important as any other. This commentary series was set up and managed by Thomas Babor and I am grateful to him for doing so. Janet Fullerton has provided expert office support.

Specialized Materials

Specialized Materials Donald E. Hall (bio) Continuing the discussion that I began several years ago in this review column, I want to glance at yet another ongoing series that may be of interest to this journal's readers. Unlike previously discussed series, this one, however, does not center on monographs devoted to individual theorists or critical movements. Instead, it is comprised of volumes that examine current critical topics within an interdisciplinary framework. Blackwell's "Manifestos" series is a somewhat diffusely conceived but certainly very interesting attempt to offer internationally known theorists and critics the opportunity to make major polemical statements in their areas of expertise. It is laudable because it allows its participants the freedom to "have their say" without much restraint, though certainly the lack of a heavy editorial hand, or even clear editorial vision, does mean that volumes can vary widely in their polish and clarity of purpose. The series has published two or three entries per year since it began in 2000, with a total of eight to date. Unlike other series reviewed here, it does not have an assigned editor with an academic affiliation, rather it is edited out of Blackwell's own acquisitions office and has the briefest series mission statement that I have ever seen. The two-sentence series overview promises that in it "major critics [will] make timely interventions [that] address important concepts and subjects," ones that are "written accessibly and with verve and spirit, . . . [and that] follow no uniform prescription but set out to engage and challenge the broadest range of readers." Some succeed admirably, others do not. The first volume published, Terry Eagleton's The Idea of Culture (2000), is perhaps the one most in need of a bit more editorial intervention. As its title suggests, its discussion ranges widely over the concept of "culture," addressing changing definitions of the term from the Renaissance to the present. Victorian Poetry's readers will appreciate its attention to Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin in its discussion of nineteenth-century theorizations of aesthetic and cultural value. However, when one encounters the term "manifesto" printed boldly across a volume cover (as is the case with all series entries here), one at least expects a clear thesis or set of bold, polemical assertions. Eagleton's meandering book is finally held together by his rejection of postmodern identity politics, which he considers socially fragmenting, and an argument for Raymond Williams' notion of a "common culture" of "affection, relationship, memory, kinship, place, community, emotional fulfillment, [and] intellectual enjoyment" (p. 131). While I find these swipes at identity politics overly broad and [End Page 321] even insensitive, my larger criticism is that the book's purpose remains unclear for over a hundred pages. A "manifesto" should not be diffuse or opaque in intent. Happily, the next series entry, Marjorie Perloff's 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics (2002), does not evince these problems; indeed, it is one of the series' best volumes. Again, there is much here that will interest readers of Victorian Poetry as Perloff not only glances back on occasion to the nineteenth century but offers detailed and lovely close readings of numerous turn-of-the-century writers. Her purpose is crystal clear, as she argues for the timeliness, indeed the payoff, of modernist principles in the new poetics of the late twentieth and now twenty-first century. Of all of the volumes in the series, this one has one of the clearest and best realized interdisciplinary scopes. Perloff's superb discussion of the "conceptual poetics" of Marcel Duchamp spans the greater part of the twentieth century in its probing of interconnections between the visual and the literary. Her final chapter references that discussion, as well as the work of Eliot and Pound, in a tour-de-force examination of Steve McCaffery's art and poetry from the 1990s and its relationship to modernist theory. This is a volume that could be assigned in genre-based seminars or those devoted to twentieth-century aesthetic theory. Perloff is perhaps the best close reader of poetry writing today. Valentine Cunningham's Reading After Theory (2002) is also manifesto-like in its clarity of purpose and precision. Cunningham is at...

Vision and revision

MicrosurgeryVolume 22, Issue 7 p. 277-277 Editorial Vision and revision William C. Lineaweaver M.D., William C. Lineaweaver M.D. Editor-in-Chief, MicrosurgerySearch for more papers by this author William C. Lineaweaver M.D., William C. Lineaweaver M.D. Editor-in-Chief, MicrosurgerySearch for more papers by this author First published: 28 October 2002 https://doi.org/10.1002/micr.10054AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume22, Issue72002Pages 277-277 RelatedInformation

Young Adult Science Fiction (review)

Essay collections are notoriously difficult to review because they contain such a range of styles, subjects, and approaches. In the case of Young Adult Science Fiction, the contents page lists twelve contributors and [End Page 473] articles about film and comics as well as essays on novels representing five countries and three languages. However, under the editorship of C. W. Sullivan III, the collection succeeds in presenting a unified editorial vision that focuses on the historical development of science fiction for young adults. Every essay is a survey of a particular theme or subgenre in science fiction or of a national literature. All of the contributors can boast an authoritative knowledge of science fiction; most of them have names familiar to anyone who follows science fiction criticism. A few whose names are not readily recognized by a science-fiction scholar offer instead credentials in the field of children's literature.

In Anticipation of Our Editorship

Among the devices that we use to impose order upon a complicated (but by no means unstructured) world, classification--or the division of items into categories based on perceived similarities--must rank as the most general and most pervasive of all. And no strategy of classification cuts deeper--while providing such an even balance of benefits and difficulties--than our propensity for division by two, or dichotomy. Some basic attributes of surrounding nature do exist as complementary pairings--two large lights in the sky representing day and night; two sexes that must couple their opposing parts to produce a continuity of generations--so we might argue that dichotomization amounts to little more than good observation of the external world. But far more often than not, dichotomization leads to misleading or even dangerous oversimplification. (Stephen Jay Gould, 1997, pp. 30-31) As the new editors of the Journal of Teacher Education, we begin our term at a particularly important, and somewhat daunting, moment--at the beginning of a new millennium and a time when, once again, teacher education is under heavy attack with its future uncertain. Perhaps most important, our editorship is aimed at eschewing dichotomies, as Gould (1997) does in Questioning the Millennium, his essay on the significance of 1,000 years in human history. Gould points out that people--and their beliefs--are not simply either good or evil, nor even are organisms either plant or animal, vertebrate or invertebrate. Similarly, we believe that the field of teacher education is not best illuminated or explored when it is framed in the terms of dichotomies--teacher education as either policy or pedagogy, teacher educators as either researchers or practitioners, and learning to teach as either theoretical or practical. Along the same lines, we do not find it useful to think of professional development in dichotomous terms as either conservative or liberating, teacher education policy as either deskilling or professionalizing, and schools and departments of education as either collaborative or isolated. We believe it is imperative, especially at this time when the issues are so highly publicized and politicized, to recognize that teacher education is an extraordinarily difficult, complex, and essential enterprise that is no more reducible to dichotomies than it is to eclectic jumbles. As new editors, we are committed to upholding the 50-year tradition of the Journal of Teacher Education as the major national forum for consideration of essential themes and topics in teacher education. Since it became a campus-based journal in the early 1970s, the editors--Haberman, Lasley, Ashton, and Ducharme and Ducharme--have built the reputation of the journal as the top peer-reviewed publication in its field. Although each aspect of teacher education named in the journal's subtitle--research, practice, and policy--is important in its own right, the hallmark of JTE has been its inclusion of all three. As new editors, we intend to concentrate on producing a journal that examines the complex intersections of research, practice, and policy in teacher education. We urge prospective authors to consider these intersections in their submissions. The key to our editorial vision for the journal is recognition of the increasingly complex and interdisciplinary field of teacher education and the growing number of competing positions in the discourse. Although history reminds us that this is not a new state of affairs, it is inescapably clear at the turn of the century that there is no consensus about what teachers need to know, who should provide education for teachers, how teachers should be certified and licensed, and what role teachers and teacher education should be expected to play in school improvement. As editors, we hope to broaden the perspectives represented in the journal by including a wider range of cultural, social, and political positions and including articles written by a greater range of stakeholders in teacher education. …

Deutsch—typologisch ed. by Ewald Lang and Gisela Zifonun (review)

662 LANGUAGE, VOLUME 74, NUMBER 3 (1998) Arabic linguistics bibliography 19791995 . By Salman H. Al-Ani and Dilworth B. Parkinson. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Linguistics Club Publications, 1996. Pp. 104. Arabic linguistics is as large and complex as the vast geographical and cultural span which the language covers. The field includes Medieval philology, the study ofthe Arab grammarians, diglossiaandother sociolinguistic topics, and structural analyses of the many living (and extinct but recorded) vernaculars. This bibliography handles literature postdating the period effectively covered by Muhammad Bakalla's well-known bibliography published in 1983. The editors state that the database was put together initially not from their own systematic library search but rather by appealing to members of the Arabic Linguistic Society at its annual conferences to send in bibliographical lists. The coverage is therefore quite ragged and makes no pretense at completeness. The strongest coverage is of English-language works, but there are quite a few foreign-language entries, chiefly French, German, and Russian; a quick scan turns up none in Arabic or Hebrew. The material is not errorfree ; this reviewer has been demoted from author to co-editor of one book. The introduction suggests that the database will be periodically updated, and authors are invited to send in their own listing. The published bibliography itself will presumably be periodically reissued, with corrections as well as additions. [Jeffrey Heath, University ofMichigan.] Understanding Arabic: Essays in contemporary Arabic linguistics in honor of El-Said Badawi. Ed by Alaa Elgibali. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1996. Pp. vii, 274. The honorée is an Egyptian scholar best known for a five-level classification of diglossic speech registers , from literary to colloquial Arabic. The fifteen papers cover historical, philological, sociolinguistic, lexicographic, and applied topics. The contributors include a number of distinguished Arabists, and the volume has more cohesion and reflects a stronger editorial vision than the average Festschrift. Nevertheless , it does not entirely escape the problems typical of the genre. In 'Epilogue: Diglossia revisited' (49-67), Charles Ferguson reflects, often ruefully, on the cottage industry spawned by his famous 1959 article. This is primarily a clarification of the original paper, which was clear enough to start with, and no new ground is broken. Otherpapers about situational registers are by Benjamin Hary, Dilworth Parkinson, and Nabil Abdelfattah . The one contribution on a non-Egyptian dialect, Dionisius Agius's 'Features of Siculo-Arabic ' (33-48), also focuses on register variation, but it is difficult to play it off against the other papers since Sicilian Arabic is a long-extinct variety pieced together from direct and indirect sources (e.g. Arabic loans in Sicilian Italian). Michael Carter has a short piece on 'Signs of change in Egyptian Arabic' (137-43). The only variationist paper is Kassem Wahba, 'Linguistic variation in Alexandrian Arabic: The feature of emphasis' (103-28). Using binary age, sex, and class features to distinguish eight populations, Wahba replicates for Alexandria the familiar finding that women show weaker pharyngealization of 'emphatic ' consonants than men of the same age/class groups but with one exception: In the young working class sector, the women cross over and have the highest pharyngealization value of any group. This class split among younger women is reminiscent of Penny Eckert's studies of American high school students. Kees Versteegh's 'Linguistic attitudes andtheoriginofspeechin the Arab world' (1 5-3 1) dealsperceptively with the difficulties that Arab grammarians of the Classical period had with issues of etymology, variation, and borrowing inconnection with language thought to be divinely established (and therefore pure and immutable). His most interesting remarks concern the relationship between certain early grammarians and the Mu'tazilite theological movement. Devin Stewart's 'Root-echo responses in Egyptian Arabic politeness formulae' (157-80) begins deceptively like a tedious surface description of blessing/reply sequences but then shifts into analytic high gear, connecting the use of 'cognate' forms in the two components with other types of parallelistic constructions, including Koranic verse-terminating phrases. Another interesting language-and-culture contribution is Zeinab Ibrahim and Deborah Kennedy 's 'Figurative language in the speech patterns of Egyptians and Americans' (181-209), which contrasts the interpretations of proverbs offered by Americans (literalist paraphrases) and Egyptians (richer...

Nursing journalism leadership.

How is leadership exemplified in the role of nurse editor? In this article, the editor of two nursing journals describes the evolution of her editorial role with a focus on job analysis and leadership requirements. Highlighted are catalyzing events that shaped the author's editorial vision and leadership style. Factors for success in the role are presented to help those who want to assume editorships.