Knowledge justice disrupting library and information studies through critical race theory / edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight.
| Other author | Leung, Sofia Y. |
| Other author | López-McKnight, Jorge R. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] |
| Description | x, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part I: Destroy White Supremacy -- Introduction to Part I -- Not the Shark, but the Water: How Neutrality and Vocational Awe Intertwine to Uphold White Supremacy -- Moving Toward Transformative Librarianship: Naming and Identifying Epistemic Supremacy -- Leaning on our Labor: Whiteness and Hierarchies of Power in LIS Work -- Tribal Critical Race Theory in Zuni Pueblo: Information Access in a Cautious Community -- Part II: Illuminate Erasure -- Introductionto Part II: The Courage of Character and Commitment versus the Cowardliness of Comfortable Contentment -- A Queer South Asian Librarian in Academia: Counterstory, Theory, Strategies -- Ann Allen Shockley: An Activist-Librarian for Black Special Collections -- The Development of U.S. Children's Librarianship and Challenging White Dominant Narratives -- Relegated to the Margins: Faculty of Color, the Scholarly Record, and the Necessity of Anti-Racist Library Disruptions -- Part III: Radical Collective Imaginations Towards Liberation -- Introductionto Part III: Freedom Stories -- Dewhitening Librarianship: A Policy Proposal for Libraries -- The Praxis of Relation, Validation, Motivation: Articulating LIS Collegiality through a CRT Lens -- Precarious Labor and Radical Care in Libraries and Digital Humanities -- Praxis for the People: Critical Race Theory and Archival Practice -- "Getting InFLOmation": A Critical Race Theory Tale from the School Library -- Conclusion: Afterwor(l)ding Towards Imaginative Dimensions. |
| Abstract | "Contributors analyze and re-envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020028167 |
| ISBN | 9780262043502 (paperback) |
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