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Knowledge justice : disrupting library and information studies through critical race theory / edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minorities in library science--United States.
- Minorities in library science.
- Critical pedagogy--United States.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Social justice--United States.
- Social justice.
- Library science--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Library science.
- Information science--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Information science.
- United States--Race relations--Philosophy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 348 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge The MIT Press 2021
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Contributors analyze and re-envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: Destroy White Supremacy
- Introductionto Part I
- Not the Shark, but the Water: How Neutrality and Vocational Awe Intertwine to Uphold White Supremacy
- Moving Toward Transformative Librarianship: Naming and Identifying Epistemic Supremacy
- Leaning on our Labor: Whiteness and Hierarchies of Power in LIS Work
- Tribal Critical Race Theory in Zuni Pueblo: Information Access in a Cautious Community
- Part II: Illuminate Erasure
- Introductionto Part II: The Courage of Character and Commitment versus the Cowardliness of Comfortable Contentment
- A Queer South Asian Librarian in Academia: Counterstory, Theory, Strategies
- Ann Allen Shockley: An Activist-Librarian for Black Special Collections
- The Development of U.S. Children's Librarianship and Challenging White Dominant Narratives
- Relegated to the Margins: Faculty of Color, the Scholarly Record, and the Necessity of Anti-Racist Library Disruptions
- Part III: Radical Collective Imaginations Towards Liberation
- Introductionto Part III: Freedom Stories
- Dewhitening Librarianship: A Policy Proposal for Libraries
- The Praxis of Relation, Validation, Motivation: Articulating LIS Collegiality through a CRT Lens
- Precarious Labor and Radical Care in Libraries and Digital Humanities
- Praxis for the People: Critical Race Theory and Archival Practice
- "Getting InFLOmation": A Critical Race Theory Tale from the School Library
- Conclusion: Afterwor(l)ding Towards Imaginative Dimensions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262363204
- 0262363208
- 9780262363198
- 0262363194
- OCLC:
- 1202266473
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