Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory

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Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color reimagine library and information science through the lens of critical race theory. In Knowledge Justice, Black, Indigenous, and Peoples of Color scholars use critical race theory (CRT) to challenge the foundational principles, values, and assumptions of Library and Information Science and Studies (LIS) in the United States. They propel CRT to center stage in LIS, to push the profession to understand and reckon with how white supremacy affects practices, services, curriculum, spaces, and policies. The contributors show that the field is deeply invested in the false idea of its own objectivity and neutrality, and they go on to show how this relates to assumptions about race. Through deep analyses of library and archival collections, scholarly communication, hierarchies of power, epistemic supremacy, children's librarianship, teaching and learning, digital humanities, and the education system, Knowledge Justice challenges LIS to reimagine itself by throwing off the weight and legacy of white supremacy and reaching for racial justice. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight I DESTROY WHITE SUPREMACY INTRODUCTION TO PART I Todd Honma 1 NOT THE SHARK, BUT THE WATER: HOW NEUTRALITY AND VOCATIONAL AWE INTERTWINE TO UPHOLD WHITE SUPREMACY Anastasia Chiu, Fobazi M. Ettarh, and Jennifer A. Ferretti 2 MOVING TOWARD TRANSFORMATIVE LIBRARIANSHIP: NAMING AND IDENTIFYING EPISTEMIC SUPREMACY Myrna E. Morales and Stacie Williams 3 LEANING ON OUR LABOR: WHITENESS AND HIERARCHIES OF POWER IN LIS WORK Jennifer Brown, Nicholae Cline (Coharie), and Marisa Méndez-Brady 4 TRIBAL CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN ZUNI PUEBLO: INFORMATION ACCESS IN A CAUTIOUS COMMUNITY Miranda H. Belarde-Lewis (Zuni/Tlingit) and Sarah R. Kostelecky (Zuni Pueblo) II ILLUMINATE ERASURE INTRODUCTION TO PART II: THE COURAGE OF CHARACTER AND COMMITMENT VERSUS THE COWARDLINESS OF COMFORTABLE CONTENTMENT Anthony W. Dunbar 5 COUNTERSTORIED SPACES AND UNKNOWNS: A QUEER SOUTH ASIAN LIBRARIAN DREAMING Vani Natarajan 6 ANN ALLEN SHOCKLEY: AN ACTIVIST-LIBRARIAN FOR BLACK SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Shaundra Walker 7 THE DEVELOPMENT OF US CHILDREN’S LIBRARIANSHIP AND CHALLENGING WHITE DOMINANT NARRATIVES Sujei Lugo Vázquez 8 RELEGATED TO THE MARGINS: FACULTY OF COLOR, THE SCHOLARLY RECORD, AND THE NECESSITY OF ANTIRACIST LIBRARY DISRUPTIONS Harrison W. Inefuku III RADICAL COLLECTIVE IMAGINATIONS TOWARD LIBERATION INTRODUCTION TO PART III: FREEDOM STORIES Tonia Sutherland 9 DEWHITENING LIBRARIANSHIP: A POLICY PROPOSAL FOR LIBRARIES Isabel Espinal, April M. Hathcock, and Maria Rios 10 THE PRAXIS OF RELATION, VALIDATION, AND MOTIVATION: ARTICULATING LIS COLLEGIALITY THROUGH A CRT LENS Torie Quiñonez, Lalitha Nataraj, and Antonia Olivas 11 PRECARIOUS LABOR AND RADICAL CARE IN LIBRARIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES Anne Cong-Huyen and Kush Patel 12 PRAXIS FOR THE PEOPLE: CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND ARCHIVAL PRACTICE Rachel E. Winston 13 “GETTING INFLOMATION”: A CRITICAL RACE THEORY TALE FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY Kafi Kumasi CONCLUSION: AFTERWOR(L)DING TOWARD IMAGINATIVE DIMENSIONS Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES INDEX BY LORI SALMON