Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Sacramento, CA : Library Juice Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina

Description

xv, 333 pages : illustration; 23 cm.

Summary

"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 provide critical accounts of the histories of whiteness - particularly as they have shaped libraries and archives in higher education - but also interrogate current formations, from the policing of people of color in library spaces to imagined LIS futures. This volume also considers possibilities for challenging oppressive legacies and charting a new course towards anti-racist librarianship, whether in the classroom, at the reference desk, or elsewhere."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; number two

Uniform Title

Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; no. 2.

Subjects

• Library science > Social aspects
• Library science > Social aspects > United States
• Whites > Race identity
• Library science > Social aspects > United States > History
• Minority librarians > United States > Social conditions
• Whites > United States > Social conditions
• Whites > Social conditions
• Whites > Race identity > United States
• History
• Anti-racism > United States
• United States > Race relations
• Librarians > United States > Social conditions
• Race relations

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 19-735

ISBN

• 9781634000222
• 1634000226

LCCN

2017030858

OCLC

992390980

Title

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

Publisher

Sacramento, CA : Library Juice Press, 2017.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; number two

Series on critical race studies and multiculturalism in LIS ; no. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

TITLE CONT: INFORMATION SCIENCE. ED: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN BERNARDINO.

Added Author

Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-735