The Problem of Whiteness in Libraries

Jessamyn West
librarian.net/talks/whiteness
VLA First Thursdays 07jan21

Slides

• Keynote Slides, PDF of my slides, with notes
• See this talk's slides on the web

Links & Notes

• Tougaloo Nine Remembered from American Libraries
• Segregated Carnegie Libraries as Spaces for Learning and Community-Making in Pre-Civil Rights America, 1900-65
• Bits of History, Danville Library and Danville Public Library (VA) renames old library building for Ruby Archie
• Action, Not Reaction: Integrating the Library Profession from ALA Archives
• Race and Librarianship Part I and Part II from the Journal of the Medical Library Association
• Annette Lewis Phinazee and North Carolina Negro Library Association on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia: Georgia Library Association, Alabama Library Association, Mississippi Library Association, Louisiana Library Association
• Wikipedia: Faith Cabin Libraries
• The Activist Life of E. J. Josey from American Libraries
• Contradictions for white people in racial justice work
• Video: Let's Talk Antiracism with Jason Broughton and Dr. Laura Jimenez from Vermont Humanities Council

Further Reading

• "Any Ideas?": The American Library Association and the Desegregation of Public Libraries in the American South
  Author: Wayne A. Wiegand
  Source: Libraries: Culture, History, and Society , Vol. 1, No. 1 (2017), pp. 1-22
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/libraries.1.1.0001
  
• The Last Days of Jim Crow in Southern Libraries
  Author: Stephen Cresswell
  Source: Libraries & Culture, Vol. 31, No. 3/4 (Summer - Fall, 1996), pp. 557-573
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25548457
• Black Public Libraries in the South in the Era of De Jure Segregation
  Author: Michael Fultz
  Source: Libraries & the Cultural Record, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Summer, 2006), pp. 337-359 Published by: University of Texas Press
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25549344
• "Transmitting Whiteness: Librarians, Children, and Race, 1900-1930s"
  Author: Shane Hand
  Source: (2011). Master's Theses. 207.
  Stable URL: https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/207
• Celebrating African-American Librarians and Librarianship
  Author: Alma Dawson
  Source: Library Trends, Vol. 49, No. 1, Summer 2000, pp. 49-87
  No stable URL, feel free to email and I'll send it to you
• Bridging the Gap in Early Library Education History for African Americans: The Negro Teacher-Librarian Training Program (1936-1939)
  Author: Allison M. Sutton
  Source: The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 138-150 Published by: Journal of Negro Education
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40034539
• Southern Librarianship and the Culture of Resentment
  Author: James V. Carmichael, Jr
  Libraries & Culture 40: 324-52.
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25541934
• Civil Rights and the Louisiana Library Association: Stumbling toward Integration
  Author: Author(s): Steven R. Harris
  Source: Libraries & Culture, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Fall, 2003), pp. 322-350
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25549125
• A Directory of Negro Graduates at Accredited Library Schools 1900-1936
  Compiled by the Columbia Civic Library Association
  URL: click here for document
• Integration and the Alabama Library Association: Not so Black and White
  Authors: Kayla Barrett and Barbara A. Bishop
  Source: Libraries & Culture, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring, 1998), pp. 141-161
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25548612
• Library Service for African Americans in Georgia: A Legacy of Learning and Leadership in Atlanta
  Authors: Akliah Nosakhere and Sharon Robinson
  Source: Georgia Library Quarterly 35(2) Summer 1998
  No stable URL, feel free to email and I'll send it to you
• Negro Library Workers
  Author: Wallace Van Jackson
  Source: The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan., 1940), pp. 95-108
  Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4302672
• North Carolina Negro Library Association
  Author: Mollie Huston Lee
  Source: North Carolina Libraries 73(1) Spring/Summer 2015
  No stable URL, feel free to email and I'll send it to you

Please email if you'd like a copy of any of these documents.