Resources and Readings

Here’s a list of articles, books, and links that we have discussed, mentioned, and found useful since we began in Fall 2011. It is a work in progress…feel free to suggest additions! We may want to re-read, re-visit some of these, so you are welcome to suggest that as well. Links to the texts can be found on the GSLIS Moodle. They are listed by the dates of our meetings, in the order in which we read them.

9/16/2011
Omi, M and Winant, H. (1994). Chapter 4. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960’s to the 1990’s. New York: Routledge.

9/30/2011
Harwood, S., Huntt, M. B., & Mendenhall, R. (2010). RACIAL MICROAGGRESSIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA–CHAMPAIGN.
And links related to this reading:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/07/15/how_racism_hurts____literally/

and
http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/20110902racescholarships.pdf

This next article is also about racial microaggressions in campus environments and gives good background for explaining what microaggressions are and how they operate more broadly in classrooms, etc.:
Solorzano, D., Ceja, M., & Yosso, T. (2000). Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate: The Experiences of African American College Students. The Journal of Negro Education, 69(1/2), 60-73.

10/14/2012
Jensen, R. (2005). Chapters 1 & 2. In The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege. San Francisco, CA: City Lights Publishing.
McIntosh, Peggy. (July/August 1989).”White privilege: unpacking the invisible knapsack.” In Peace and Freedom.
Additional Readings:
Harris, C. I. (1993). Whiteness as Property. Harvard Law Review 106(8), 1707-1791.
Frye, M. (1992). “White Woman Feminist.” In Willful Virgin: Essays in Feminism The Crossing Press.
Roediger, D. R. (2002). Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (1st ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

10/28/2012
Honma, T. (2005). Trippin’over the color line: The invisibility of race in library and information studies. Interactions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, 1(2).
Additional Readings:
Pawley, C. (2006). Unequal legacies: Race and multiculturalism in the LIS curriculum. Library Quarterly, 76(2), 149–168.
Race in the Age of Obama (Summer 2011; Brief talks from multiple scholarly authors). Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 12-21.

11/11/2011
Delpit, Lisa.  (August 1988). “The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People’s Children.”  Harvard Educational Review 53:3.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. (Spring 1992). “Talking About Race, Learning About Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom.”  Harvard Educational Review 62:1.
Two brief recent blog posts from Coloring Between the Lines:
They Didn’t Get That From Me
!
But Then Again, They Can Get That From Us

1/27/2012
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU&feature=youtu.be

2/10/2012
McCarthy, C. (1994). “Multicultural Discourses and Curriculum Reform: A Critical Perspective.Educational Theory, 44(1).

 2/24/2012
Applebaum, B. (2010). Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy. Chapter 2 on “White Privilege and Denials of Complicity.” Lexington Books.

Additional Reading:
Owen, D. S. (2007). Towards a critical theory of whiteness. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 33(2), 203-222.

3/9/2012
Overall, P. M. (2010). The Effect of Service Learning on LIS Students’ Understanding of Diversity Issues Related to Equity of Access. Journal of Education for Library & Information Science, 51(4), 251–266.

4/6/2012
Jaeger, P. T., Subramaniam, M. M., Jones, C. B., & Bertot, J. C. (2011). Diversity and LIS Education: Inclusion and the Age of Information.Journal of Education for Library & Information Science, 52(3), 166–183.

4/20/2012
Sue, D.M., Bucceri, J., Lin, A.I., Nadal, K.L., Torino, G.C. (2007). Racial Microaggressions and the Asian American Experience. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 13:1, 72–81.

Daniels, J. (March 29th, 2012). Trayvon Martin, Racism, and Social Media. On blog Racism Review.

6/1/2012
Warner, L.S. and K. Grant. (2006). American Indian Ways of Leading and Knowing. Leadership 2, 225-44.

6/15/2012
Hong, Grace Kyungwon. 2008. “The Future of Our Worlds”: Black Feminism and the Politics of Knowledge in the University under Globalization. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 8:2, 95-115.

6/29/2012
This video play has different parts to it, and you can click through the steps:

http://www.silkroadrising.org/video-plays/mosque-alert
This is Jamil Khoury’s video essay called Not Quite White:
http://www.silkroadrising.org/video-plays/not-quite-white/video-essay-on-whiteness

Additional Reading:
This article was mentioned in our meeting on 6/15.

Melamed, Jodi. 2006. “The Spirit of Neoliberalism: From Racial Liberalism to Neoliberal Multiculturalism.” Social Text 89(24):4, 1-24.

7/13/2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtDfajOTayM

About a youth program out of Boston’s community health center; they are committed to addressing racism as part of their work on public health.

7/27/2012

http://billmoyers.com/segment/khalil-muhammad-on-facing-our-racial-past/

Bill Moyers and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, head of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and author of The Condemnation of Blackness, discuss the importance of confronting the contradictions of America’s past to better understand the present.

8/10/2012
MacCann, D. (1989). Libraries for Immigrants and ‘Minorities’: A Study in Contrasts. Social Responsibility in Librarianship: Essays on Equality. Jefferson, NC: McFarland + Co., 97-113.

The readings for 2012-13 are collected under Fall Schedule 2012.

Other resources recommended over the course of 2011-12:

A video that introduces the diversity standards of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhBD-e5QZVQ&feature=youtu.be

More information about the standards can be found at:
http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/6148

Kendall, Frances. Understanding White Privilege. Routledge, 2006.

Kiese Laymon on growing up male and black in Mississippi

http://gawker.com/5927452/how-to-slowly-kill-yourself-and-others-in-america-a-remembrance

New York Times article and response below:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-to-read-a-racist-book-to-your-kids.html

Kerry Mockler has written a response on her blog that I felt articulated a lot of the problems I was having (as well as pointed out some things I hadn’t thought of): http://themovingcastle.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-not-to-read-racist-books-to-your.html

Brene Brown and her research as discussed in her second TED talk. About 10 minutes in, Brown addresses racism specifically.

http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html

Her first TED talk on vulnerability is valuable too. It is linked from the one above.

The Pew Center’s report on the Kony video:

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Kony-2012-Video/Main-report.aspx

The NY Times discussion on the Kony video:

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/03/09/kony-2012-and-the-potential-of-social-media-activism

http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice.html

There are two very short essays by female faculty of color included in this Mentoring Toolkit put together by SAWH, the Southern Association for Women Historians. http://www.h-net.org/~sawh/Toolkit/.

http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/

Jay Smooth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdxeFcQtaU&feature=youtu.be

Legal scholar and speaker extraordinaire Patricia Williams in 1997 delivered the Reith Lectures for the BBC. There are 5 of them, 28 minutes each, under the umbrella title of “The Genealogy of Race.”

The Emperor’s New Clothes 1/5. Professor Patricia Williams assesses the effect of social blindness about colour and race;

The Pantomime of Race 2/5. Professor Williams explores ‘racial voyeurism’ and the denial of racial experiences;

The Distribution Of Distress 3/5. Professor Williams examines the interaction of race and class in society;

The War Between The Worlds 4/5. Professor Williams examines the impact of racialised science on attitudes to race;

An Ordinary Brilliance: Parting the Waters, Closing the Wounds 5/5. Professor Williams explores solutions to prevent racism and reconcile racial tensions.

You can listen online or download:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ghvkl

IDEALS/Ethnography of the University Initiative (student research on the University of Illinois)
Diversity on Campus/Equity and Access
http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/769
The University and the Community
http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/774
University Units and Institutional Transformation
http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/847

Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society
http://cdms.illinois.edu/pages/Publications/Home.html
[includes links to full reports]

PBS’ “Race: The Power of an Illusion” ( http://www.pbs.org/race )