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Topographies of whiteness : mapping whiteness in library and information science / Gina Schlesselman-Tarango, editor.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina, editor.
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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