Accessibility for Justice: Accessibility as a Tool for Promoting Justice in Librarianship

In Brief Recent critiques of diversity in higher education and librarianship by Stewart (2017), Hudson (2017), and Hathcock (2015) have encouraged a critical shift away from diversity talk and initiatives, towards attention to equity, anti-racism, and whiteness. They point out that diversity initiat...

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Main Author: Stephanie Rosen
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Language:English
Published: In the Library with the Lead Pipe 2017-11-01
Series:In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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Online Access:http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/accessibility-for-justice/
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description In Brief Recent critiques of diversity in higher education and librarianship by Stewart (2017), Hudson (2017), and Hathcock (2015) have encouraged a critical shift away from diversity talk and initiatives, towards attention to equity, anti-racism, and whiteness. They point out that diversity initiatives often fail to address deeper power imbalances, and they offer new language for the effort to make our institutions more just.
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justice
title Accessibility for Justice: Accessibility as a Tool for Promoting Justice in Librarianship
title_full Accessibility for Justice: Accessibility as a Tool for Promoting Justice in Librarianship
title_fullStr Accessibility for Justice: Accessibility as a Tool for Promoting Justice in Librarianship
title_full_unstemmed Accessibility for Justice: Accessibility as a Tool for Promoting Justice in Librarianship
title_short Accessibility for Justice: Accessibility as a Tool for Promoting Justice in Librarianship
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topic accessibility
disability
intersectionality
justice
url http://inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/accessibility-for-justice/
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