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Knowledge Justice : Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021Copyright date: 2021Description: x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262043505
  • 9780262043502
Other title:
  • Disrupting library and information studies through critical race theory
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Knowledge justice.DDC classification:
  • 020.89 23
LOC classification:
  • Z682.4.M56 .K58 2021
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: This is only the beginning / Sofia Y. Leung, Jorge R. López-McKnight. -- I. Destroy White supremacy: Introduction to Part I / Todd Honma -- 1. Not the shark, but the water : how neutrality and vocational awe intertwine to uphold White supremacy / Anastasia Chiu, Fobazi M. Ettarh, Jennifer A. Ferretti -- 2. Moving toward transformative librarianship : naming and identifying epistemic supremacy / Myrna E. Morales, Stacie Williams -- 3. Leaning on our labor : whiteness and hierarchies of power in LIS work / Jennifer Brown, Nicholae Cline (Coharie), Marisa Mendez-Brady -- 4. Tribal critical race theory in Zuni Pueblo : information access in a cautious community / Miranda H. Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit), Sarah R. Kostelecky (Zuni Pueblo). --
II. Illuminate erasure: Introduction to Part II : The courage of character and commitment versus the cowardliness of comfortable contentment / Anthony W. Dunbar -- 5. Counterstoried spaces and unknowns : a queer South Asian librarian dreaming / Vani Natarajan -- 6. Ann Allen Shockley : an activist-librarian for Black special collections / Shaundra Walker -- 7. The development of U.S. children's librarianship and challenging White dominant narratives / Sujei Lugo Vazquez -- 8. Relegated to the margins : faculty of color, the scholarly record, and the necessity of antiracist library disruptions / Harrison W. Inefuku. --
III. Radical collective imaginations towards liberation: Introduction to Part III : Freedom stories / Tonia Sutherland -- 9. Dewhitening librarianship : a policy proposal for libraries / Isabel Espinal, April M. Hathcock, Maria Rios -- 10. The praxis of relation, validation, and motivation : articulating LIS collegiality through a CRT Lens / Torie Quinonez, Lalitha Nataraj, Antonia Olivas -- 11. Precarious labor and radical care in libraries and digital humanities / Anne Cong-Huyen, Kush Patel -- 12. Praxis for the people : critical race theory and archival practice / Rachel E. Winston -- 13. "Getting inFLOmation" : A critical race theory tale from the school library / Kafi Kumasi -- Conclusion: Afterwor(l)ding toward imaginative dimensions / Sofia Y. Leung, Jorge R. López-McKnight. -- Contributor biographies -- Index / Lori Salmon.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: This is only the beginning / Sofia Y. Leung, Jorge R. López-McKnight. -- I. Destroy White supremacy: Introduction to Part I / Todd Honma -- 1. Not the shark, but the water : how neutrality and vocational awe intertwine to uphold White supremacy / Anastasia Chiu, Fobazi M. Ettarh, Jennifer A. Ferretti -- 2. Moving toward transformative librarianship : naming and identifying epistemic supremacy / Myrna E. Morales, Stacie Williams -- 3. Leaning on our labor : whiteness and hierarchies of power in LIS work / Jennifer Brown, Nicholae Cline (Coharie), Marisa Mendez-Brady -- 4. Tribal critical race theory in Zuni Pueblo : information access in a cautious community / Miranda H. Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit), Sarah R. Kostelecky (Zuni Pueblo). --

II. Illuminate erasure: Introduction to Part II : The courage of character and commitment versus the cowardliness of comfortable contentment / Anthony W. Dunbar -- 5. Counterstoried spaces and unknowns : a queer South Asian librarian dreaming / Vani Natarajan -- 6. Ann Allen Shockley : an activist-librarian for Black special collections / Shaundra Walker -- 7. The development of U.S. children's librarianship and challenging White dominant narratives / Sujei Lugo Vazquez -- 8. Relegated to the margins : faculty of color, the scholarly record, and the necessity of antiracist library disruptions / Harrison W. Inefuku. --

III. Radical collective imaginations towards liberation: Introduction to Part III : Freedom stories / Tonia Sutherland -- 9. Dewhitening librarianship : a policy proposal for libraries / Isabel Espinal, April M. Hathcock, Maria Rios -- 10. The praxis of relation, validation, and motivation : articulating LIS collegiality through a CRT Lens / Torie Quinonez, Lalitha Nataraj, Antonia Olivas -- 11. Precarious labor and radical care in libraries and digital humanities / Anne Cong-Huyen, Kush Patel -- 12. Praxis for the people : critical race theory and archival practice / Rachel E. Winston -- 13. "Getting inFLOmation" : A critical race theory tale from the school library / Kafi Kumasi -- Conclusion: Afterwor(l)ding toward imaginative dimensions / Sofia Y. Leung, Jorge R. López-McKnight. -- Contributor biographies -- Index / Lori Salmon.

"Contributors analyze and re-envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory"-- Provided by publisher.

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