This ‘article’ serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue that programmatic anti-racist interventions such as this Special Issue are crucial to the process of redressing the ‘racialised’ patterns of research and authorship characterising mainstream psychology journals.
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