Antiracist library and information science racial justice and community / edited by Kimberly Black and Bharat Mehra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehra, Bharat, editor.

Black, Kimberly, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Advances in librarianship ; v. 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library science--Social aspects.

Library science.

Libraries and minorities.

Anti-racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 256 pages ): illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, West Yorkshire : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781802621013

1802621016

Publisher Number:

99993493677

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Restricted for use by site license.