Resources

Race Matters in Our Profession
April Hathcock, JD, LLM, MLIS,@aprilhathcock

  • bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, 1994
  • Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, & the Politics of Empowerment, 2000
  • April M. Hathcock, “White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS,” In the Library With the Lead Pipe, Oct. 7, 2015
  • Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, 1984
  • Joe R. Feagin, The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-framing, 2010
  • Todd Honma, “Trippin’ Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library & Information Studies,” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education & Information Studies 1(2), 2005
  • Wayne A. Wiegand, Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library, 2015
  • Jaena Alabi, “Racial Microaggressions in Academic Libraries: Results of a Survey of Minority & Non-minority Librarians,” Journal of Academic Librarianship 41(1), 2015
  • April M. Hathcock, “Whiteness & Oppressive Normativity,” At the Intersection [Blog], Apr. 21, 2016
  • Angela Galvan, “Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness in Librarianship,” In the Library With the Lead Pipe, Jun. 3, 2015
  • Jennifer Vinopal, “Reducing Bias in the Library Job Interview,” Vinopal.org [blog], Apr. 11, 2016
  • Keith Curry Lance, “Racial & Ethnic Diversity of U.S. Library Workers,” American Libraries, May 2005
  • Jennifer Vinopal, “The Quest for Diversity in Library Staffing: From Awareness to Action,” In the Library With the Lead Pipe, Jan. 13, 2016
  • Tessa L. Dover, Brenda Major, & Cheryl R. Kaiser, “Diversity Policies Rarely Make Companies Fairer, and They Feel Threatening to White Men,” Harvard Business Review, Jan. 4, 2016
  • Srilatha Batliwala, Feminist Leadership for Social Transformation: Clearing the Conceptual Cloud, 2011
  • ShinJoung Yeo & James R. Jacobs, “Diversity Matters? Rethinking Diversity in Libraries, Counterpoise 9(2), 2006
  • Diane Lynn Gusa, “White Institutional Presence: The Impact of Whiteness on Campus Climate,” Harvard Education Review 80(4), 2010
  • Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
  • Rachel Fleming, “The Hurt Gets Worse & the Heart Gets Harder,” Unified Library Scene [blog], Dec. 3, 2015

on the propensity of librarianship toward whiteness
Baharak Yousefi, @baharaky

  • Ahmed, S. (2012). On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Durham: Duke University Press.
  • Ahmed, S. (2016). Losing Confidence. In feministkilljoys.
  • Ali, T. (2015). The Extreme Centre: A Warning. New York: Verso Books.
  • Easterling, K. (2014). Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. New York: Verso Books.
  • Fatima, S. (2015). Am I Being Paranoid? Being a Woman of Color in Academia. In SIUE Women’s Studies Program blog.
  • Galvan, A. (2015). Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness and Librarianship. In the Library with the Lead Pipe.
  • Hathcock, A. (2015). White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS. In the Library with the Lead Pipe.
  • Lugones, M. (2007). Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System. Hypatia 22(1), 186-209.
    Smith, C. (2014, July 17), Trish Kelly quits as Vision Vancouver park candidate to halt distractions over her sex-positive activism. The Georgia Straight.
  • Smith, M. (2010). “Gender, whiteness and the ‘Other Others’ in the Academy”. In S. Razack, M. Smith, and Thobani, S. (Eds.), States of Race: Critical Race Feminism for the 21st Century (37-58). Toronto: Between the Lines Press.

Missing Persons: Finding Multiracial Resources in a Monoracially-Organized Library World
Helen Look, Darlene Nichols, Alexandra Rivera, Karen E. Downing

Offensive Mechanisms, Constructive Paths: How to Recognize and Deal with Microaggressions in the LIS Field
Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez, Rose L. Chou, Jenna Freedman

Identity, Emotions, and Intersectionality: New research on academic librarians of color
Juleah Swanson, @Juleah.swanson

  • Crenshaw, K.. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. http://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
  • Collins, P. H. (2009). Foreword: Emerging intersections-building knowledge and transforming institutions. In Collins, P., McLaughlin, A., Higginbotham, E., Henderson, D., Tickamyer, A., MacDonald, V. M., … & Dance, L. J (Eds.), Emerging intersections: Race, class, and gender in theory, policy, and practice. Rutgers University Press.
  • Falcon, S. (2009). Intersectionality. In J. O’Brien (Ed.), Encyclopedia of gender and society (pp. 468-469). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications Ltd. doi: 10.4135/9781412964517.n233
  • Vignoles, V. L., Schwartz, S. J., & Luyckx, K. (2011). Introduction: Toward an integrative view of identity. In Handbook of identity theory and research (pp. 1-27). Springer New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7988-9_1
  • Swanson, J., Tanaka, A., Gonzalez-Smith, I., Damasco, I.T., Hodges, D., Honma, T., Espinal, I., (2014, March 26). From the Individual to the Institution: Exploring the Experiences of Academic Librarians of Color [Audio recording]. Retrieved from http://acrl.learningtimesevents.org/from-the-individual-to-the-institution-exploring-the-experiences-of-academic-librarians-of-color-2/
  • Gonzalez-Smith, I., Swanson, J., & Tanaka, A. (2014) Unpacking identity: Racial, ethnic, and professional identity and academic librarians of color. In N. Pagowsky & M. Rigby (Eds.), The librarian stereotype: Deconstructing perceptions and presentations of information work (pp. 149-173). Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries.
  • Wilkins, A. C., & Pace, J. A. (2014). Class, Race, and Emotions. In Handbook of the Sociology of Emotions: Volume II (pp. 385-409). Springer Netherlands. Doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-9130-4_18
  • Hill, S. (2005) Black intimacies: A gendered perspective on families and relationships. New York: Rowman Altmaria.
  • Wilkins, A. C. (2012). Stigma and status: Interracial intimacy and intersectional identities among black college men. Gender & Society. 26(2), 165-189.
  • Feagin, J. R., Vera, H., & Batur, P. (2001) White racism: The basics. New York: Psychology Press.

Let’s Talk about Diversity or a Lack of . . . A Perspective from a Law Library Director
Julie Lim

Working Through Whiteness: Toward Antiracist Librarianship
Melissa Kalpin Prescott

  • Rachel E. Luft, “Intersectionality and the Risk of Flattening Difference,” in The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class and Gender, ed. Michele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
  • Janet E. Helms, “An Update of Helms’s White and People of Color Racial Identity Models,” in Handbook of Multicultural Counseling ed. Joseph G. Ponterotto, et al. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995).
  • Beverly Daniel Tatum, “Teaching White Students about Racism: The Search for White Allies and the Restoration of Hope.” Teachers College Record, 95, 4 (Summer 1994).
  • Andrea Ayvazian (2010). Creating Conversations: Becoming a White Ally. Talk at Greenfield Community College.
  • April Hathcock, “You’re Gonna Screw Up,” At the Intersection (blog), April 13, 2015.
  • Beverly Daniel Tatum, “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations About Race (New York: Basic Books, 2003).

Interrogating Racism and Exploring Identity in LIS Classrooms: Collaborative Autoethnography in Social Justice Education
Nicole A. Cooke, @LibraryNicole & Robin F. Kurz, @RobinKurz

Black Feminist Librarianship
Tahirah Akbar-Williams

  • Jones, K. C. and Budig, M. J. (2008). Feminist theory. In V. Parrillo, Encyclopedia of social problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  • Librarian. (2006). In J. Stevenson (Ed.), Dictionary of information and library management. London, United Kingdom: A&C Black.
  • Collins, P. H. (2002). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge.
  • Thornton, J. K. (2001). African American female librarians: a study of job satisfaction. Journal of Library Administration, 33(1-2), 141-164.
  • Henderson, T. L., Hunter, A. G., & Hildreth, G. J. (2010). Outsiders within the academy: Strategies for resistance and mentoring African American women. Michigan Family Review, 14(1).
  • Louis, D. A., Rawls, G. J., Jackson-Smith, D., Chambers, G. A., Phillips, L. L., & Louis, S. L. (2016). Listening to Our Voices Experiences of Black Faculty at Predominantly White Research Universities With Microaggression. Journal of Black Studies.
  • Whitfield-Harris, L. (2016). The Workplace Environment for African-American Faculty Employed in Predominately White Institutions. ABNF Journal, 27(2).
  • Librarians. (2014). In U. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014-2015 occupational outlook handbook. Washington, District of Columbia: Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.

Dissecting the Relationship Between Public Libraries and #BlackLivesMatter
Patricia Cortez Valdovinos

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