Via @Miisaakan in Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory
Librarianship is not neutral:
“… librarianship is not neutral. In fact, it is riddled with biases and oppressive acts that have gone unexamined by the profession.” “By extension, we argue in this chapter that information is not neutral.”
“The biases we hold as human individuals affect every aspect of library work. They affect whom we allow to enter, whom we allow to stay on the premises, the programs and services we offer, the collections we organize, curate, and archive, and most importantly, they affect our colleagues and the people we choose to serve.”
CRT informs librarianship:
“Some who embraced a critical race framework for approaching librarianship … offer examples over time of social justice work that allows us to reimagine what librarianship could look like if we addressed the needs of those who are most impacted by the tyranny and fascist conditions of our times: working-class and poor communities of color.”
History is written by the ‘Winning Side’:
“It behooves us to understand that history is told from the “winning” side (in this case, all those who gain materially from White Supremacy); that forces us to challenge ahistoricism and examine the conditions that we live in thoroughly and unapologetically.”
