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

• TeilnehmendeR: Leung, Sofia Y.,; López-McKnight, Jorge R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts : : The MIT Press,, [2021]
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 348 pages)

"Contributors analyze and re-envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

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.