Topographies of whiteness : mapping whiteness in library and information science

Book 2017

"Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collection features the work of scholars, practitioners, and others who draw from a variety of theoretical approaches to name, problematize, and ultimately fissure whiteness at work. Contributors not only provide critical accounts of the histories of whiteness - particularly as they have shaped libraries and archives in higher education - but also interrogate...

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Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; no. 2 Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; number two

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ISBN:

9781634000222

Description:

xv, 333 pages : illustration ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Early formations: tracing the historical operations of whiteness
A revisionist history of Andrew Carnegie's library grants to black colleges / Shaundra Walker
Interrogating whiteness in college and university archival spaces at predominantly white institutions / Nicole M. Joseph, Katherine M. Crowe, and Janiece Mackey
The academic research library's white past and present / Ian Beilin
Present topographies: surveying whiteness in contemporary LIS
The weight of being a mirror : a librarian's short autobiography / Sarah Hannah Gómez
Looking the part / Jessica Macias
Nostalgia, cuteness, and geek chic : whiteness in Orla Kiely's Library / Vani Natarajan
White feminism and distributions of power in academic libraries / Megan Watson
Who killed the world? : White masculinity and the technocratic library of the future / Rafia Mirza and Maura Seale
The whiteness of practicality / David James Hudson
Fissures: imagining new cartographies
Mapping topographies from the classroom : addressing whiteness in the LIS curriculum / Nicole A. Cooke, Katrina Spencer, Jennifer Margolis Jacobs, Cass Mabbott, Chloe Collins, and Rebekah M. Loyd
Mapping whiteness at the reference desk / April M. Hathcock and Stephanie Sendaula
My librarianship is not for you / Jorge Ricardo López-McKnight
Breaking down borders : dismantling whiteness through international bridges / Natalie Baur, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, and George Apodaca
Disrupting whiteness : three perspectives on white anti-racist librarianship / with essays by Melissa Kalpin Prescott, Kristyn Caragher, and Katie Dover-Taylor

LCCN:

2017030858

Control Number:

2609653

Other Authors:

Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina, editor

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