Topographies of Whiteness : Mapping Whiteness in Library and Information Science.
"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 p...
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Sacramento, CA :
Litwin Books, LLC,
2017.
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| Series: | Series on Critical Race Studies and Multiculturalism in LIS Ser.
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Table of Contents:
- Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Early Formations: Tracing the HistoricalOperations of Whiteness; Chapter 1. A Revisionist History of Andrew Carnegie's LibraryGrants to Black Colleges; Chapter 2. Interrogating Whiteness in College and UniversityArchival Spaces at Predominantly White Institutions; Chapter 3. The Academic Research Library's White Past andPresent; Part Two: Present Topographies: Surveying Whiteness inContemporary LIS; Chapter 4. The Weight of Being a Mirror: A Librarian's ShortAutobiography; Chapter 5. Looking the Part.
- Chapter 6. Nostalgia, Cuteness, and Geek Chic: Whiteness in Orla Kiely's LibraryChapter 7. White Feminism and Distributions of Power inAcademic Libraries; Chapter 8. Who Killed the World? White Masculinity and theTechnocratic Library of the Future; Chapter 9. The Whiteness of Practicality; Part Three: Fissures: Imagining New Cartographies; Chapter 10. Mapping Topographies from the Classroom: Addressing Whiteness in the LIS Curriculum; Chapter 11. Mapping Whiteness at the Reference Desk; Chapter 12. My Librarianship is Not for You.
- Chapter 13. Breaking Down Borders: Dismantling Whiteness Through International BridgesChapter 14. Disrupting Whiteness: Three Perspectives on White Anti-Racist Librarianship; About the Contributors; Index.