Antiracism and Spiritual Practice: An Exegesis of Race and LIS
Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community
ISBN: 978-1-80262-100-6, eISBN: 978-1-80262-099-3
Publication date: 21 March 2023
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explain how library and information science (LIS) with a focus on libraries, librarians and LIS associations, developed into becoming a racist institution that supports white supremacy. The central argument is that a philanthropic organization, the Carnegie Foundation, which led the eugenics movement, captured LIS and with the assistance of the American Library Association (ALA), created a library ecosystem that was structurally racist in order to maintain the power of the elites. This study is an exegetical analysis that is explored through the lens of a Christian spirituality conceptual framework. Some tentative solutions to remedy this problem are suggested.
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Citation
Black, K. (2023), "Antiracism and Spiritual Practice: An Exegesis of Race and LIS", Black, K. and Mehra, B. (Ed.) Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 52), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 35-50. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020230000052005
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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