Antiracist library and information science : racial justice and community

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Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community presents the scholarship and insights of seasoned academic researchers and experienced practitioners as well as emerging scholars, graduate students, new professionals and activists in the field of LIS on the topic of antiracism. The chapters represent a combination of critical, scholarly, and reflective perspectives on the theory, practice, and progress made towards the act...

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Anti-racism

Libraries and minorities

Library science Social aspects

Part of a Series:

Advances in librarianship Advances in librarianship ; v. 52

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ISBN:

9781802621006

Description:

xix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Racial justice and community

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction / Kimberly Black and Bharat Mehra
Epistemicide and anti-blackness in libraries, archives, and museums: working toward equity through epistemic justice practices / Beth J.H. Patin, Melissa Smith, Tyler Youngman, Jieun Yeon and Jeanne Kambara
Antiracism and spiritual practice: an exegesis of race and LIS / Kimberly Black
[Reflection essay] Unearthing racism in the soil: developing collective anti-racist consciousness in a Library and Information Science classroom / LaVerne Gray
[Reflection essay] Dismantling the myths: evidence-based antiracist school librarianship / Janice Moore Newsum
Beyond the diversity audit: uncovering whiteness in our collections / Amanda Rybin Koob, Arthur Aguilera, Frederick C. Carey, Xiang Li, Natalia Tingle Dolan and Alexander Watkins
Shutting down the tent revival: the call for inclusive leadership in LIS / Nicole A. Cooke and Lucy Santos Green
Slave cases and ingrained racism in legal information infrastructures / Jennifer Elisa Chapman
Collegiality as a weapon to maintain status quo in a white-privileged and entrenched LIS academy / Bharat Mehra, Laurie Bonnici, and Steven L. MacCall
[Reflection essay] Bad things keep happening in our town / Ferial Pearson, Sandra Rodriquez-Arroyo and Gabriel Gutiérrez
[Reflection essay] Antiracism cultural humility and black males in the library / Conrad Pegues
[Reflection essay] With head and heart: exploring autoethnographic antiracist research in pediatric cancer communities / Shalonda Capers
[Reflection essay] Publishing while Latina: my journey as an LIS scholar in search of the academic stool's third leg / Mónica Colón-Aguirre
Black librarians and racial and informational justice for the Brazilian black population / Franciéle Carneiro Garcés-da-Silva, Dirnele Carneiro Garcez and Leyde Klebia Rodrigues da Silva
Immigrants in Alabama: community-engaged scholarship as a lens for racial justice / Baheya S.J. Jaber
"White pricks" (A.K.A. inoculations against racialized trauma) to decenter white privilege in a professional association's leadership networks of LIS educators / Bharat Mehra
[Reflection essay] Engaging antiracist conversations: foregrounding Twitter feeds in library guides as a way to critically promote discussions of racial justice / Anders Tobiason
[Reflection essay] "We the people" an essay on the survival of America / Robert E. Johnson
[Reflection essay] The Charlottesville Virginia tragedy and historical artifacts: an essay reviewing public culture and libraries' responsibility in changing the narrative for antiracism / Briana Christensen

Control Number:

3302788

Other Authors:

Black, Kimberly, editor
Mehra, Bharat, editor

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