Knowledge justice : disrupting library and information studies through critical race theory / / edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2021]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 348 pages)
• Disciplina: 020.89
• Soggetto topico: Minorities in library science - United States; Critical pedagogy - United States; Social justice - United States; Library science - Moral and ethical aspects - United States; Information science - Moral and ethical aspects - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations Philosophy
• Soggetto non controllato: SOCIAL SCIENCES/Ethnic & Racial Studies; INFORMATION SCIENCE/Library Science
• Persona (resp. second.): LeungSofia Y.; López-McKnightJorge R.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I: Destroy White Supremacy -- Introductionto 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Contributors analyze and re-envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Knowledge justice
• ISBN: 0-262-36320-8; 0-262-36319-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910557591803321
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