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The Black librarian in America : reflections, resistance, and reawakening / edited by Shauntee Burns-Simpson, Nichelle M. Hayes, Ana Ndumu, and Shaundra Walker ; foreword by Carla D. Hayden.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American librarians.
- African Americans and libraries.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 288 pages) : illustrations
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book will contribute to the discourse on ways of increasing anti-racism, empowerment, and representation in the LIS field and beyond. It continues in the civil rights legacy of African American librarian pioneers including Dr. E.J. Josey, Dr. Virginia Lacy Jones, Dr. Carla Hayden, and Dr. Eliza Atkins Gleason"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Dr. Carla D. Hayden, Fourteenth Librarian of Congress
- Part I: A rich heritage: Black librarian history
- Libraries and the color line: Du Bois and the matter of representation / Rhonda Evans
- Wearing many hats: a conversation with Robert Wedgeworth / Ana Ndumu
- Disadvantaged by (financial) design: the disappearing act of HBCU library science programs / Aisha Johnson
- A hidden figure: Adella Hunt Logan, Tuskegee Institute's first librarian / Shaundra Walker
- Part II: Celebrating collective and individual identity
- "I'm rooting for everybody Black": a labor of love / Jina DuVernay
- Assumed identity: realities of Afro-Caribbean librarians / Twanna Hodge, Kelsa Bartley, and Kenya Flash
- The Western librarian: community and collective individualism / James Allen Davis Jr.
- Margins of the margins of the margins: on being Black with disabilities and/or neurodivergence in libraries and archives / Kai Alexis Smith
- Uhuru celeration of individual and collective healing and empowerment: five lessons from an activist librarian-author-griot / Roland Barksdale-Hall
- Part III: Black librarians across settings
- Building community through digital innovation: @BlackLibrarians and WOC+Lib / Shannon Bland and LaQuanda Onyemeh
- Empowerment through access: fostering youth STEM engagement with culturally reflective library services / Teresa R. Quick, Cheryl R. Small, and Amalia E. Butler
- Leading in health sciences librarianship: perspectives from Black library leaders / Bethany McGowan and Jahala Simuel
- The HBCU librarians' experience: doing more with your time and talent for less treasure / Jamillah Scott-Branch, Vernice Riddick Faison, and Danielle Colbert-Lewis
- Leading while black: are we up for the challenge? / Deloice Holliday and Michele Fenton
- Part IV: Movign forward: antiracism, activism, and allyship
- Passing the torch: the tradition of mentorship among Black librarians / Satia M. Orange and Tracie D. Hall
- Rethinking Black MLIS student recruitment: a call to action / Vivian Bordeaux and Jahala Simuel
- Post-2020 public libraries: the urgency for community dialogue and healing / Taliah Abdullah, Hadiya Evans, Regina Renee Ward
- Thoughts on sustaining the academic library / Angiah L. Davis and Michelle E. Jones
- Expanding the Black archival imagination: digital content creators and the movement to liberate Black narratives from institutional violence / keondra bills freemyn
- Afterword / Julius C. Jefferson, Jr.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42905-0
- 979-88-8188-001-9
- 1-5381-5268-1
- OCLC:
- 1267403856
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