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

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"Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collection features the work of scholars, practitioners, and others who draw from a variety of theoretical approaches to name, problematize, and ultimately fissure whiteness at work. Contributors not only provid...

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Other Authors: Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Sacramento, CA : Library Juice Press, 2017.
Series:Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; no. 2.
Subjects:
Library science > Social aspects > United States.
White people > Race identity > United States.
Library science > Social aspects > United States > History.
Anti-racism > United States.
Librarians > United States > Social conditions.
White people > United States > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
Physical Description:xv, 333 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Mapping whiteness in library and information science
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Todd Honma
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction / Gina Schlesselman-Tarango
  • Part one. 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. Crow, and Janiece Mackey / The academic research library's white past and present / Ian Beilin
  • Part two. 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
  • Part three. 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. Lloyd
  • Mapping whiteness at the reference desk / April M. Hathcock and Stephanie Sendaula
  • My librarianship is not for you / Jorge R. López-McKnight
  • Breaking down borders: dismantling whiteness through international borders / Natalie Baur, Mararita Vargas-Betancourt, and George Apodaca
  • Disrupting whiteness: Three perspectives on white anti-racist librarianship