This month marks two years of sharing out resources focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion topics! We're excited to continue with our emails sharing items that may be of interest or value to those seeking to learn more about social justice. While we know we can’t be comprehensive, we do our best to collect timely resources on library-related issues and share those every few weeks. If you have resources that fall under the diversity and inclusion umbrella you feel might be helpful or interesting for the ILA membership, please send them my way and I will work with the committee to share them out as appropriate.
Sincerely,
Cara B. Stone
Chair, Committee for Diversity & Inclusion
- Breaking barriers: Woman becomes 1st openly autistic person to practice law in Florida https://www.kcci.com/article/breaking-barriers-woman-becomes-1st-openly-autistic-person-to-practice-law-in-florida/26364293
- The Librarian at the Nexus of the Harlem Renaissance https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/harlem-renaissance-librarian-regina-anderson?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=twitter&fbclid=IwAR35U0qMpn6NLANBeVwv_fPHG_S8c8FipTMVPZu8cb--KoqqTDgMv4HWCeE
- Diversity on display in new exhibit https://www.northerniowan.com/10009/showcase/diversity-on-display-in-new-exhibit/?fbclid=IwAR116QObKWHHyEyr-w657jek-XH4fCIxDmRc4pN66j30gB-1whPsp_0A5rw
- Deaf woman applies for 1,000 jobs in 18 months - and is rejected from them ALL https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/deaf-woman-applies-1000-jobs-13985129?fbclid=IwAR1dhh3N743PB9YD_8A9zmSrz7Oq_95CGZXyp1plJUrbEpputlW_4Th3teg
- White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It's not Robin diAngelo https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/16/racial-inequality-niceness-white-people?fbclid=IwAR1jS6P0TtzlRlxewKc-oRBxitQbFe7U2ypmvo-J1rqWstgN5EjryePKJt0
- Late Night with Seth Meyers - White Savior: The Movie Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_RTnuJvg6U&fbclid=IwAR0Y4tXYNAF2hHZcxpfF1pwaqSICf4ssvduTSrDs6IZHPDut0hcqn4P1jJ4
- To Reduce Chronic Homelessness, A Chicago Hospital Is Treating It As A Medical Condition https://www.wbez.org/shows/here-and-now/to-reduce-chronic-homelessness-a-chicago-hospital-is-treating-it-as-a-medical-condition/baacb5b3-af62-4b2c-8bf2-aaa5838fcd8f?fbclid=IwAR249HhVFeVThtj8M-VYcCKhmsmmjINz9SKI6Ng7uKVssv2wJBz-P7rOdsY
- Ames High Officials Admit Crowd Directed ‘Hurtful’ Chants at Des Moines North Players https://whotv.com/2019/02/27/ames-high-officials-admit-crowd-directed-hurtful-chants-at-des-moines-north-players/?fbclid=IwAR3wTqSdNhSHH771Wck2ocL3_rUMbOqJTf2wxx1kaerVBsjHNolMeTd8jGM
- Ames Athletic Director responds to racial chant reports at AHS basketball game https://www.amestrib.com/news/20190228/ames-athletic-director-responds-to-racial-chant-reports-at-ahs-basketball-game
- Local library helps people battle Seasonal Affective Disorder http://www.wtol.com/2019/02/25/local-library-helps-people-battle-seasonal-affective-disorder/?fbclid=IwAR1cuHk-O24L7ENB0bw8-woRSQFanL2XKJ2bggbG4dbgB8BdPJZeSthAbK4
- How More People Of Color Are Finding Therapists Who Look Like Them https://www.keranews.org/post/how-more-people-color-are-finding-therapists-who-look-them?fbclid=IwAR222cfi8MTxKBcmgVhLzzMtgvROJEqqCql3mh2R2lk-nwflAtkIetyiZp0
- A crash course in autism https://www.luther.edu/ideas-creations-blog/?story_id=853802&fbclid=IwAR0jlAsMZcM-KtCM5doZhfaDKq72TmFY_IMGH1eYZgN28mAkvRz1k2exBBA
- How Much Wealthier Are White School Districts Than Nonwhite Ones? $23 Billion, Report Says https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/education/school-districts-funding-white-minorities.html?fbclid=IwAR3d4qln_ExDEVIgF1Oz2uRQwrZYZq8nkDcnXBiShgy-qMvxqFBmynduEYU
- They were raised to be ‘colorblind’ — but now more white parents are learning to talk about race https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/on-parenting/they-were-raised-to-be-colorblind--but-now-more-white-parents-are-learning-to-talk-about-race/2019/02/26/02dfc976-3072-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.9631e43838c6
- Young Black Student’s Book Accepted Into Library of Congress https://www.ebony.com/news/race-culture/young-black-student-book-library-congres/?fbclid=IwAR2Z-p2R4UAVSn1aDpbZWhOBx-o7ql-OcPHvp39k98iGDfvDZLQvU0tO_sU
- A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-sociologist-examines-the-white-fragility-that-prevents-white-americans-from-confronting-racism?fbclid=IwAR2mmRe8_5PzXlRe7YoD0nLOuzdkIEici8UwRfk8wxyNP2arLdFgQdyISdI
- Jordan Peele On the Importance of Telling Many Kinds of Black Stories https://www.colorlines.com/articles/jordan-peele-importance-telling-many-kinds-black-stories?fbclid=IwAR2z5QjYlhtGVoHTxoRp-2yTDymT-UD5OnC2kHlzaPtWkBGP7OY_q5f-2WQ
- Libraries are for Everyone signage and other print materials from Hafuboti, Rebecca McCorkindale (Thank you to Julie Finch for sharing!) https://hafuboti.com/2018/09/12/lafe-library/
- Systemic Workplace Barriers for Academic Librarians with Disabilities https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/16948
- Corporate America must invest in neurodiversity https://universitybusiness.com/article/corporate-america-must-invest-neurodiversity/
- Gendered Labor and Library Instruction Coordinators: The Undervaluing of Feminized Work http://www.ala.org/acrl/sites/ala.org.acrl/files/content/conferences/confsandpreconfs/2017/GenderedLaborandLibraryInstructionCoordinators.pdf
- This Twitter thread from @LibrarianAngie on structural racism in libraries https://twitter.com/LibrarianAngie/status/1090766370277675009
- White Fragility Robin DiAngelo explored the challenges in discussing race with white Americans. https://www.c-span.org/video/?447421-2/robin-diangelo-white-fragility
- White fragility : why it's so hard for White people to talk about racism https://www.worldcat.org/title/white-fragility-why-its-so-hard-for-white-people-to-talk-about-racism/oclc/1022084782
- Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics - Kimberle Crenshaw https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8/
- Trippin’ Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library and Information Studies - Todd Honma https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4nj0w1mp
- In Pursuit of Antiracist Social Justice: Denaturalizing Whiteness in the Academic Library https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/34983
- On "Diversity" as Anti-Racism in Library and Information Studies: A Critique http://libraryjuicepress.com/journals/index.php/jclis/article/view/6
- White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/lis-diversity/
- Racial Microaggressions in Academic Libraries: Results of a Survey of Minority and Non-minority Librarians https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2014.10.008 (not open access)
- Critical Race Theory and the Recruitment, Retention and Promotion of a Librarian of Color: A Counterstory https://kb.gcsu.edu/lib/1/
- Soliciting performance, hiding bias: whiteness and librarianship http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/soliciting-performance-hiding-bias-whiteness-and-librarianship
- Examining structural oppression as a component of information literacy: A call for librarians to support #BlackLivesMatter through our teaching https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/JIL/article/view/LLC-V11-I2-1
- The Whiteness of Practicality https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/11619
- BAME workers in the Library https://padlet.com/kmp23/dhd1bj1x9ldz A (growing) collection of readings relevant to the topic of being Black Asian Minority Ethnic staff member in the library (main focus is UK, but there is a lot more US material available on this subject).
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This message is sent on behalf of the ILA Committee for Diversity and Inclusion as a point of interest for the general membership; CD&I is not responsible for any of the content found within, and any views may not necessarily represent those of the committee, its members, or any associated organizations. It is shared for informational purposes only.
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