“…Whereas some investigators (Pearson, 1978;Schiele, 1990) have challenged Merton's (1 968) universalism assumption of science, others (Anderson, 1983(Anderson, , 1988Hill, 1980;Staples, 1984) have underscored the importance of attitudinal factors, which they assume influence the rejection of manuscripts by AfricanAmericans when submitted to mainstream or "white" journals.' It is suggested that these attitudes reflect racist beliefs that the works of African-American writers are unscholarly (Anderson, 1988;Staples, 1984); polemical (Anderson, 1983(Anderson, , 1988Staples, 1984); and too subjective (Anderson, 1983(Anderson, , 1988Hill, 1980).…”