Index

Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community

ISBN: 978-1-80262-100-6, eISBN: 978-1-80262-099-3

ISSN: 0065-2830

Publication date: 21 March 2023

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(2023), "Index", 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. 245-256. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-283020230000052025

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Copyright © 2023 Kimberly Black and Bharat Mehra


INDEX

AALL Annual Conference (2021)
, 119

Abolition democracy
, 196

Abolitionism
, 38

Abolitionist movement
, 35

Academic collections
, 74

Academic discourse
, 229

Academic law librarians
, 119

Academic libraries
, 71–72, 79–81

Academic work
, 168

Accountability of abusive administrators
, 135

ACLU Alabama
, 198

Active management
, 97

Actual voices
, 231–232

Administration
, 169

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
, 61

Advocacy
, 144–145

African Americans
, 62, 236

physicians
, 42

societies
, 199

African continent
, 187

African-based religions
, 187

Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (ACIJ)
, 196, 198–203

Alabama Immigration and
, 197–199

coalition
, 198

community
, 202

goals and objectives
, 199, 208

improve accessibility of ACIJ website for different groups of immigrants
, 207

increasing engagement of immigrants in ACIJ decision-making
, 206

members
, 204

mission
, 202

social media sites
, 201

statistics
, 198

website
, 199

Alabama Department of Homeland Security
, 198

Alabama HB 56
, 198

Alabama State Department of Archives and History
, 16

Alabamians about immigrants, offering increased outreach and awareness to
, 204

Algorithms
, 116

algorithm-driven search technologies
, 116

Alianza Americas
, 198

All-American School
, 143

ALWD Guide to Legal Citation
, 113

America
, 235

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)
, 118

American Association of School Librarian (AASL)
, 62–63

American Association of University Professors
, 126

American case law
, 110

American Indians in Children’s Literature
, 64

American legal system
, 109–110

American Library Association (ALA)
, 21, 35, 44, 63, 131, 238

dismantle
, 47

Executive Board
, 21

American property law
, 110

American society
, 60

American South
, 124

Analogical legal reasoning asserts
, 111

Anthropological approach
, 37

Anthropology
, 179

Anti-blackness
, 3, 17–18

in archival records and practices
, 24

in archives
, 22

in LAMs
, 16–19

in libraries
, 19–22

Antiracism
, 3

eugenics and philanthropic organizations
, 39–44

racism and eugenics
, 38–39

recommendations to achieve antiracist LIS
, 45–48

spirituality as approach to antiracism in LIS
, 44–45

theoretical and methodological considerations
, 36–38

Antiracist
, 8

collections
, 187

dismantle ALA
, 47

dismantle LIS education
, 46

individuals benefited from existing racist system of LIS
, 47–48

library
, 46–47

recommendations to achieve antiracist LIS
, 45

truth and reconciliation process
, 47

Antiracist “work” in classroom
, 159

Archives
, 22

anti-blackness in archival records and practices
, 24

physical exclusion from archives and profession
, 23

recentering archive
, 24–25

#ArchivesForBlackLives
, 24

Art acquisitions
, 28

Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 62

Aryan race
, 182

Association of Library and Information Science Education Statistical Report (2021) (ALISE Statistical Report)
, 217

Auditing
, 70

Authentic antiracism
, 45

Author-based diversity audit methodologies
, 70

Autoethnographic antiracist research in pediatric cancer communities
, 163–164

antiracist “work” in classroom
, 159

for black women
, 159–163

Autoethnographic womanist rhetorical musings
, 159

creating scholarship between rock and hard place
, 162–163

critical engagement
, 162

radical subjectivity
, 160–161

redemptive self-love
, 161–162

traditional communalism
, 161

Autoethnography
, 159

Beason-Hammon Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act
, 198

Behavioral systems
, 97

“Beloved Community” concept
, 4, 7

Beyond Flexner Alliance
, 42

Bias
, 171

Black Americans
, 19–21

Black archivists
, 22

Black colleges
, 20

Black communities
, 20

lack of resources to build library for
, 20–21

Black feminism
, 57, 159–163

Black History Month (BHM)
, 145

Black librarians
, 21, 179, 183, 186

Black Librarianship
, 186

Black lives
, 17, 19

Black Lives Matter (BLM)
, 243

Black Manhood in library, cultural humility and
, 153–154

Black men
, 150–154

Black neighborhoods
, 154

Black people
, 150, 162, 182

Black people, indigenous people, and people of color (BIPOC)
, 36, 88, 128, 145

challenges and barriers to BIPOC women leaders in LIS tent revival
, 93–95

educators
, 145

women faculty
, 99

Black Response
, 28

#BlackTwitter
, 94

Black woman
, 160, 162

librarians
, 21

womanism
, 159–163

Blacks
, 185

Bluebook
, 113, 118

Boundaries in Library, cultural humility and
, 152–153

Brazilian Black Librarianship
, 179, 183

Brazilian black population

collections for informational justice and epistemic reparation
, 186–187

information retrieval via simple language and using “Pretuguese”
, 187–188

racial relations in Brazilian Society, white supremacy, and absence of social justice in librarianship
, 179–185

strategies for librarians to act toward social, informational and racial justice in Brazilian libraries and librarianship teaching
, 185

training for ethnic-racial relations
, 186

Brazilian context
, 179

Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
, 181

Brazilian Librarianship
, 179

Brazilian Libraries and Librarianship Teaching, strategies for librarians to act toward social, informational and racial justice in
, 185–188

Brazilian Society
, 182

racial relations in
, 179–185

Broughton v. Badgett cases
, 116

Calundu
, 187

Candomblé
, 187

Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations
, 39–40

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Learning
, 128

Carnegie Foundation
, 40, 43

Carnegie libraries
, 43

Case law enhancement
, 112

Case reporters
, 111–113

Casebooks
, 111

Categorization systems
, 114–115

Censorship
, 141

Centralization of whiteness
, 26–27

Chase v. Lockerman (1840 Maryland case)
, 117

Checkbox diversity
, 4

Christian spiritual framework
, 37

Christian spirituality
, 37, 39, 45

Citing Slavery Project database
, 109

Civil Rights
, 127

struggles
, 124

Civil Rights Era
, 42

Civil Rights Movement
, 3, 38, 45, 237

Civil War
, 100, 110

Civil War Monuments
, 245

Class activities
, 57

Classroom

antiracist “work” in
, 159

community of diverse affinities
, 55

Collection development
, 70

practices
, 72

whiteness in
, 77

Collection management practices
, 70

Collective anti-racist consciousness
, 58

Collective femininity
, 92

College of Communication & Information Sciences
, 158

Collegiality
, 127

social justice
, 132–133

as weapon to operationalize administrative bullying
, 133–135

white-privileged characteristics in entrenched academy of south
, 127–131

Colonialism
, 25

Colonialism 2. 0
, 25–26

“Color evasiveness” concept
, 80

Communicative actions
, 125

Community-embedded scholarship
, 129

Community-engaged scholarship
, 158, 160, 207

Community/communities
, 47

building
, 55–56

engagement
, 202–203

Complementarian ideology
, 91

Complementarianism
, 89, 92

Computational approaches
, 73

Confederacy
, 242

Confession
, 45

Consciousness raising
, 53

Contingent rewards
, 97

Continuous advocacy
, 119

Cooperation with information organizations including public libraries
, 204–206

Core Terms
, 117

Coretta Scott King Book Awards
, 64

Council of the Society of American Archivists (2020)
, 16

Council on Interracial Books for Children
, 64

Counterpublic discourse on library guides
, 230–231

Creativity
, 57–58

Critical and Radical Librarianship
, 186

Critical engagement, fourth tenet of womanism
, 162

Critical Race Theory (CRT)
, 56, 199, 237

Critical reflection essays
, 5, 8

Critical research
, 129

Cultural artifacts
, 244

Cultural competence
, 149

Cultural competency programs and services, language and
, 206–207

Cultural elements
, 187

Cultural heritage institutions
, 244–245

Cultural humility

and Black Manhood in library
, 153–154

and boundaries in library
, 152–153

and homophobia
, 151–152

and mental health
, 150–151

need for cultural humility in library
, 149–150

Cumulative trauma
, 62

Customs
, 111

Databases
, 111–113

Decenter
, 215, 217, 221

Decision-making process
, 206, 215

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program
, 203

Digests
, 111–113

Discourse
, 231

Diverse author identities, identifying
, 74–75

Diverse subjects, identifying
, 72–74

Diversity
, 4, 140

committee or task force devoted to
, 206

establish diversity committee or task force devoted to
, 206

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)
, 95, 173

importance of DEI research to my scholarship
, 169–170

personnel dedicated to DEI planning
, 203

Diversity audits
, 76

to audit or not to audit
, 75–77

building tool
, 81–83

identifying diverse author identities
, 74–75

identifying diverse subjects
, 72–74

methodologies for performing diversity audits of library collections
, 71

monoculturalism
, 79

white ascendency and entitlement
, 79–80

white estrangement
, 80–81

white evasiveness
, 80

whiteness studies
, 77–79

WIP and Academic Library
, 79

Education
, 245

reshaping professional practice through
, 30

Educators
, 145

Edutopia
, 64

Empathy
, 153

Emphasized femininity
, 91

English Learner (EL)
, 143

Entrenched academy of south, white-privileged characteristics in
, 127–131

Entrepreneurship and professional growth to immigrants, opportunities for
, 207

Epistemic blindness of Brazilian Librarianship
, 179

Epistemic injustice
, 18

types of
, 18

Epistemic justice
, 18–19

Epistemic reparation, collections for informational justice and
, 186–187

Epistemicide
, 18, 178

in LAMs
, 16–19

Equality
, 236

Equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA)
, 214

Equity leadership
, 95

Ethnic-racial relations, training for
, 186

Eugenics
, 38–39, 48

effect
, 39

movement
, 140

society influence and institutional capture
, 39–44

Eugenics Records Office (ERO)
, 40

Eurocentric museums
, 25

Evangelist
, 89

Evangelistic leader
, 89

Evidence-based antiracist school librarianship

best practices
, 64–65

cumulative trauma
, 62

disorder and disparities
, 61–62

standards-based engagement
, 62–63

Evil
, 37

Exegesis
, 36

Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM)
, 198

Feedback
, 173

Feminism
, 93

Feminists
, 3

Full range leadership models
, 96–97

implementation
, 100

inclusive excellence
, 100–101

startup
, 98–99

transitional
, 99–100

Full-time tenure track position
, 168

Gendered racial capitalism
, 196

Gentrification
, 25–26

Golden Mom community
, 162

GoodReads
, 71

Grab-bag candy game
, 162

Gusa’s framework of WIP
, 79

Hall’s biography
, 140

Headnotes
, 111

Health information support services
, 158, 161–162

Helpmate
, 92

Heritage
, 244

artifacts to change narrative
, 244–246

Hermeneutical injustice
, 18

Higher education
, 97

Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, The
, 198

Historic Artifact and Patriotism Act
, 246

History of America
, 237

Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative (HRAC)
, 229

Homophobia, cultural humility and
, 151–152

Houston Public Library
, 20

Human resources for library development
, 21

Human Trafficking and Slavery
, 114

Immigrants
, 204, 206

and ACIJ
, 197–199

center with organizational purpose responsive to diversity
, 202

community engagement
, 202–203

data collection and analysis
, 200–201

establish diversity committee or task force devoted to diversity
, 206

final themes-based SDM framework
, 202

improve accessibility of ACIJ website for different groups of immigrants
, 207

increasing cooperation with information organizations including public libraries
, 204–206

increasing engagement of immigrants in ACIJ decision-making
, 206

information resources
, 203

method
, 199–200

offer opportunities for entrepreneurship and professional growth to immigrants
, 207

offering increased outreach and awareness to Alabamians about immigrants
, 204

personnel dedicated to DEI Planning
, 203

positionality
, 196–197

provide language and cultural competency programs and services
, 206–207

provide outreach programs to schools
, 204

providing awareness of news and events
, 203

recommendations
, 207–208

research questions
, 197

results
, 201

sharing ACIJ’s accomplishments nationally
, 206

sources of data used for analysis
, 201

themes based on Mehra and Davis’ strategic diversity manifesto framework
, 201

theoretical framework
, 199

Implementation, stages in full range leadership
, 100

Inclusion

advocacy
, 158

of immigrants
, 206

Inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA)
, 130

Inclusive excellence, stages in full range leadership
, 100–101

Inclusive leadership approach
, 95–96

Indian Removal Act (1830)
, 239

Indigenous peoples
, 144, 182, 185

Information and Black Feminisms
, 56

Information equity, recommitting to
, 29

Information organizations including public libraries, increasing cooperation with
, 204–206

Information Resources
, 203

Information retrieval

process
, 187

via simple language and using “Pretuguese”
, 187–188

Informational justice

in Brazilian libraries and librarianship teaching, strategies for librarians to act toward
, 185–188

collections for informational justice and epistemic reparation
, 186–187

Innovation

building community
, 55–56

creativity
, 57–58

intimacy as
, 54–58

texts
, 56–57

world around us
, 57

Institutional bigotry
, 145

Institutional capture
, 41

eugenics and philanthropic organizations society through influence and
, 39–44

Intersectionality, Kimberlé Crenshaw’s articulation of
, 158

Intimacy as innovation
, 54–58

Invisibility
, 218–220

Invisibility of whiteness
, 78–79

theme of
, 80

Japanese Community History Project
, 76

Justice
, 230

Justice-oriented solutions
, 28

recommitting to professional standards and information equity
, 29

representative digital landscape
, 29–30

reshaping professional practice through education
, 30

Key Number 204T
, 112

Key Number System
, 111

Key numbers
, 117

Language and cultural competency programs and services
, 206–207

Language barriers
, 197

Latin American Indigenous Languages Project
, 76

Latina Scholar

beginnings as
, 168–169

publishing as
, 170–172

Leadership
, 91

Learning for Justice
, 64

Legal citation

practices
, 113

systems
, 113

Legal databases
, 117

slave cases in
, 113–116

Legal historians
, 111

Legal information infrastructures

acknowledging case’s connection to slavery
, 117–118

case reporters, digests, and databases
, 111–113

categorization
, 114–115

implications
, 116–117

ingrain racism
, 113

legal background
, 110

legal citation practices
, 113

LIS field’s role
, 118–120

literature review
, 109–110

slave cases in legal databases
, 113–116

solutions
, 117

technology-driven issues
, 115–116

Legal information systems
, 108, 110–111, 118

Legal scholars
, 109

Legal treatises
, 111

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Ace (LG BTQIA)
, 145

Lexis
, 114, 117, 119

Core Terms
, 115

database
, 112

LGBTQ movements
, 203

Librarians
, 145

Librarianship

in Brazil
, 178

course
, 178

racial relations in Brazilian society, white supremacy, and absence of social justice in
, 179–185

strategies for librarians to act toward social, informational and racial justice in Brazilian Libraries and
, 185–188

Libraries
, 5, 35, 77, 93, 173, 244–246

anti-blackness, but in new way
, 21–22

anti-blackness in libraries in early twentieth century
, 19–20

community
, 117

cultural humility and black manhood in
, 153–154

cultural humility and boundaries in
, 152–153

lack of resources to build library for black community
, 20–21

methodologies for performing diversity audits of library collections
, 71–75

need for cultural humility in
, 149–150

Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs)
, 16

anti-blackness
, 17–18

epistemic injustice and epistemicide
, 18

toward epistemic justice
, 18–19

Library and information science (LIS)
, 1, 171, 76

academy
, 126

challenges and barriers to BIPOC women leaders in
, 93–95

curriculum
, 98

education
, 46

educators
, 220

faculty
, 131

field’s role
, 118–120

full range leadership in action
, 97–101

inclusive leadership approach
, 95–96

professionals
, 118, 120

remove individuals benefited from existing racist system of
, 47–48

scholarship
, 89

spirituality as approach to antiracism in
, 44–45

tent revivalist
, 89–91

tent revivalist’s helpmate
, 91–93

transformational, transactional, and full range leadership models
, 96–97

in West
, 4

Library guides

adding twitter feeds to
, 229–230

counterpublic discourse on our
, 230–231

problems with
, 230

Library of Congress (LC)
, 61, 64, 72

Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
, 72

Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH)
, 71

#LibraryTwitter
, 94

List-checking (traditional modes of diversity audits)
, 76

strategies
, 71

Local libraries
, 61

“Mafia-like” bullying in cahoots
, 134–135

Mainstreaming of whiteness
, 78

Matriculation process
, 163

“Me search” autoethnography method
, 159

Mechanical neutrality
, 116

Medium Op-Ed piece
, 140–141

Mehra and Davis’ Strategic Diversity Manifesto Framework
, 201

Memory policy
, 180

Mental health, cultural humility and
, 150–151

#MeToo Movement
, 101

Middle-class values
, 92

Minorities in America
, 236

Misogyny
, 88, 92, 94

Mona Lisa
, 28

Monocultural values
, 79

Monoculturalism
, 79

Monuments
, 245

in Charlottesville
, 245

of museums
, 25–26

Mosaic Program
, 22

MSLIS
, 46

Multiple traumatic stresses
, 62

Museums
, 17

black response
, 28

centralization of whiteness
, 26–27

monuments, gentrification, and colonialism 2. 0
, 25–26

sphere of whiteness in
, 25

Narratology
, 129

National Association for the Advancemen of Colored People
, 198

National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
, 25

National Library
, 178

National Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA)
, 143

National Partnership for New Americans
, 198

Nebraska
, 140–144

advocacy
, 144–145

bigots
, 143–146

Nike of Samothrace
, 28

Non-tenure track faculty positions with renewable contracts (NTRC)
, 131

Non-white LIS association leadership
, 222

Non-white populations
, 182

Normalization of whiteness
, 78

North American society
, 88

OCLC ’s GreenGlass tool
, 73

Online environment
, 56

Online Merriam-Webster Dictionary
, 129

Op-Ed
, 145

Oppression
, 4, 52, 54–55, 238

multiplicity of
, 58

Oppressive systems
, 72

Optimism
, 235

Organizational structures
, 113

Original poster (OP)
, 94

Outraged parents
, 140

#OwnVoices
, 71, 75

Participatory action research
, 129

Passive management
, 97

Pavillon des Sessions
, 27

Pedagogy
, 52

Pedagogy of the Oppressed
, 54

Pediatric cancer community
, 161

Peer support group for mothers
, 158

Personal narrative
, 52, 54

Philanthropic associations’ approach
, 47

Philanthropic organizations society through influence and institutional capture
, 39–44

Physical exclusion from archives and profession
, 23

PK-12 school librarians function
, 62

Policies
, 20

Posh person
, 94

Positionality statements
, 171

Postscript
, 232–233

Power
, 239

Power Abuse
, 220–221

Predominantly white institution (PWI)
, 70

Pretuguese, information retrieval via simple language and using
, 187–188

Primary source documents
, 61, 64

Profession, physical exclusion from archives and
, 23

Professional association’s leadership networks
, 214

Professional blindness of Brazilian Librarianship
, 179

Professional growth to immigrants
, 207

Professional practice through education
, 30

Professional standards, recommitting to
, 29

Progressive librarianship
, 186, 235, 239

Projects
, 64

Protestant Christianity
, 90

Psychology
, 179

Public Broadcasting Service
, 64

Public culture
, 244

Public engagement
, 244

Public libraries

anti-Blackness
, 20

increasing cooperation with information organizations
, 204–206

Public Library Association (PLA)
, 36

Qualitative methodologies
, 173

Qualitative research methods
, 197, 199

Qualitative thematic analysis of data
, 200

Quilombola communities
, 187

Race
, 2, 78, 230

Racial democracy

concept
, 181

myth of
, 180–181

Racial equality
, 236

Racial injustices
, 145

Racial justice

actual voices
, 231–232

counterpublic discourse on our library guides
, 230–231

interlude
, 230

postscript
, 232–233

twitter feeds to library guides
, 229–230

Racial relations in Brazilian Society, White Supremacy, and Absence of Social Justice in Librarianship
, 179–185

Racial trauma
, 62

Racialized trauma
, 214

Racism
, 2, 38–39, 52, 61, 181–182, 236, 239, (see also Antiracism)

collective anti-racist consciousness
, 58

enabling transgressions
, 53–54

intimacy as innovation
, 54–58

systemic
, 2

teaching
, 53

Racist system of LIS, remove individuals benefited from existing
, 47–48

Radical subjectivity, tenet of womanism
, 160–161

Reconciliation process
, 47–48

Reconstruction Amendments
, 110

Redemptive self-love, third tenet of womanism
, 161–162

Reductionist methods
, 112

Repentance
, 45

Replacement theorists
, 237

Representative digital landscape
, 29–30

Revivalists
, 89

Roman aedilitian edict
, 117

Scholarship

importance of DEI research to my
, 169–170

between rock and hard place
, 162–163

School librarians
, 63

School libraries
, 62, 186

Schools, outreach programs to
, 204

Science
, 39

Scientific rationality
, 39

SDM framework
, 196, 200

Seattle University School of Law
, 119

Semi-autobiographical ethnography
, 129

Semi-autoethnographic strategy
, 217

Shared Foundations
, 63

Shepard’s Signals
, 112

Situational leadership
, 97

Slave cases
, 116

Slave cases in legal databases
, 113

legal information infrastructures ingrain racism
, 113

Slavery
, 100, 108, 110

acknowledging case’s connection to
, 117–118

institution of
, 111

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
, 64

Social and racial justices
, 202, 204–205

Social justice
, 173, 229

absence of social justice in librarianship
, 179–185

advocate
, 125

home
, 132–133

issues
, 228

Sociology
, 179

Southeast Immigrant Rights Network (SEIRN)
, 198

Spirituality as approach to antiracism in LIS
, 44–45

Standards-based engagement
, 62–63

Startup, stages in full range leadership
, 98–99

State Archives Service
, 24

State Librarian
, 17

Stewart court
, 116

Stewart v. Gainesville Glass Co. (1974 case)
, 116

Storytelling
, 129

Structural and institutionalized racism
, 181

Structured oppression
, 162

Student + guide relationship
, 162

Subject-based diversity audit methodologies
, 70

Subjective cultural coding strategies
, 71

Supreme Court termination (1991)
, 60

Surname analysis
, 74

System knowledge
, 99

Systemic racism
, 2, 238

“Talented Tenth” concept
, 238

Teacher candidates
, 145

Teaching
, 53

for change
, 64

and learning
, 52

in LIS/IS course
, 54

Technical rules
, 111

Technology
, 230

Technology-driven issues
, 115–116

Ten Year Program in Library Service
, 44

Tent revivalist
, 89–91

helpmate
, 91–93

Tenure clock
, 169

Tenure process
, 169

Testimonial injustice
, 18

Texts
, 56–57

Thematic analysis
, 199

Topic modeling
, 73

Tourist approach
, 63

Toxic white feminist microaggressions
, 93

Traditional communalism, second tenet of womanism
, 161

Traditionally Marginalized voices
, 230

Transactional leadership models
, 96–97

Transformational leadership

models
, 96–97

style
, 97

Transgressions
, 53–54

Truth
, 47–48, 239

Twitter
, 94, 140, 228

feeds to library guides
, 229–230

hashtags
, 230

private
, 232–233

UAct
, 134

Umbanda
, 187

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
, 2

United States (USA)
, 35, 71, 87, 91, 114, 215

ACIJ’s partners
, 198

American teaching model
, 178

case law
, 108–109

Census Bureau statistics
, 64

Census data
, 71

government
, 39

University libraries
, 186

University of Alabama (UA)
, 127

University of CU Boulder
, 70

University of South Carolina (UofSC)
, 95

Grace Jordan McFadden Professors program
, 95

University of Virginia (UVA)
, 232

Uppity
, 94

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
, 119

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
, 119

Venus de Milo
, 28

Very High Risk (VHR)
, 158

Very High Risk B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (VHR B-Cell ALL)
, 158

Veteran teachers
, 145

Virtual reality (VR)
, 62

Voice as womanist scholar
, 158

Voting process
, 236

We Need Diverse Books
, 64

Weapon to operationalize administrative bullying, collegiality as
, 133–135

West Publishing Company
, 112

Western art pieces
, 28

Western Frontier Evangelism
, 90

Western knowledge systems
, 25

Western religious tradition concept
, 88–89

Western-centric approaches
, 73

Westlaw
, 114, 117, 119

Key Number System
, 112, 114

legal database
, 112

White “allies” of racial/ethnic minority populations
, 130

White ascendency and entitlement
, 79–80

White blindness
, 80

White Daddy syndrome
, 132

White equates
, 60

White estrangement
, 80–81

White evasiveness
, 80

White industrial philanthropists
, 20

White institutional presence (WIP)
, 79–81

White LIS association leadership
, 222

White Pricks
, 214

context
, 215–217

erasure
, 217–218

invisibility
, 218–220

power abuse
, 220–221

White privilege
, 92, 214, 218, 221

concerns of
, 222

in contemporary practice
, 216

decenter
, 217

EDIA concerns of
, 22

White superiority
, 60

White supremacy
, 25, 35, 78, 238

racial relations in
, 179–185

White victimhood
, 93

White-facing museums
, 25

White-IST
, 127, 158

hegemonic tools
, 162

White-on-black oppression
, 3

White-privileged academic institutions and libraries
, 124

White-privileged characteristics in entrenched academy of south
, 127–131

White-privileged entrenched policies
, 132

White-privileged entrenchments
, 126

Whiteness
, 183–184

centralization of
, 26–27

ideology
, 77–78

invisibility of whiteness
, 78–79

normalization and mainstreaming
, 78

other
, 78

sphere of whiteness in museums
, 25–28

studies
, 77

white supremacy
, 78

Whitening ideology
, 183

Womanism
, 158

Womanist
, 159

Women
, 236

Workplace spirituality
, 89

WorldCat Collection Analysis
, 73

Zinn Education Project
, 64

Prelims
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Groundings
Chapter 1: Epistemicide and Anti-Blackness in Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Working Toward Equity Through Epistemic Justice Practices
Chapter 2: Antiracism and Spiritual Practice: An Exegesis of Race and LIS
Chapter 3: {Reflection Essay} Unearthing Racism in the Soil: Developing Collective Anti-Racist Consciousness in a Library and Information Science Classroom
Chapter 4: {Reflection Essay} Dismantling the Myths: Evidence-Based Antiracist School Librarianship
Part II: Dimensions of the Problem of Race in LIS and Community
Chapter 5: Beyond the Diversity Audit: Uncovering Whiteness in Our Collections
Chapter 6: Shutting Down the Tent Revival: The Call for Inclusive Leadership in LIS
Chapter 7: Slave Cases and Ingrained Racism in Legal Information Infrastructures
Chapter 8: Collegiality as a Weapon to Maintain Status Quo in a White-privileged and Entrenched LIS Academy
Chapter 9: {Reflection Essay} Bad Things Keep Happening in Our Town
Chapter 10: {Reflection Essay} Antiracism Cultural Humility and Black Males in the Library
Chapter 11: {Reflection Essay} With Head and Heart: Exploring Autoethnographic Antiracist Research in Pediatric Cancer Communities
Chapter 12: {Reflection Essay} Publishing While Latina: My Journey as an LIS Scholar in Search of the Academic Stool's Third Leg
Part III: Developing Antiracist LIS and Creating the “Beloved Community”
Chapter 13: Black Librarians and Racial and Informational Justice for the Brazilian Black Population
Chapter 14: Immigrants in Alabama: Community-Engaged Scholarship as a Lens for Racial Justice
Chapter 15: “White Pricks” (A.K.A. Inoculations against Racialized Trauma) to Decenter White Privilege in a Professional Association's Leadership Networks of LIS Educators
Chapter 16: {Reflection Essay} Engaging Antiracist Conversations: Foregrounding Twitter Feeds in Library Guides as a Way to Critically Promote Discussions of Racial Justice
Chapter 17: {Reflection Essay} “We the People” An Essay on the Survival of America
Chapter 18: {Reflection Essay} The Charlottesville Virginia Tragedy and Historical Artifacts: An Essay Reviewing Public Culture and Libraries' Responsibility in Changing the Narrative for Antiracism
Index