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Topographies of whiteness : mapping whiteness in library and information science / Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; Number 2.
- Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; number 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Library science--Social aspects--United States.
- Library science.
- Library science--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Librarians--United States--Social conditions.
- Librarians.
- Minority librarians--United States--Social conditions.
- Minority librarians.
- White people--Race identity--United States.
- White people.
- White people--United States--Social conditions.
- Anti-racism--United States.
- Anti-racism.
- Library science--Social aspects.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Sacramento, California : Library Juice Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "Provides critical accounts of LIS history, exploring the legacies and current formations of whiteness, from whiteness and technology to whiteness and library pedagogy"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-63400-078-1
- OCLC:
- 1112298601
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