race – OPEN SHELF

Asian Canadian identity: A reading list

I have the great privilege of being old, and as a Chinese Canadian librarian, I have assembled this reading list of sources that have helped me grapple with questions of my own identity as an Asian Canadian. I hope this reading list helps the next generation with their struggles to be seen.

Features

Inclusive librarianship: On white fragility

Because whiteness functions as normative and invisible, it is often very difficult for white people specifically to see whiteness.

Features

Making room for diverse voices in our schools

It can be easy to say that our school library learning commons is a safe space [but] simply saying something out loud does not make it true.

It's Elementary: Thoughts About School Libraries

Inclusive librarianship: On whiteness

As for librarians of colour, a focus on whiteness is very beneficial. I found this true for myself and I got a great response from librarians of colour.

Features

Racialized is the new Black, and Brown and …

When I think back to my early understandings of race, I recall being five years old and passing some older boys who spat on me ...

Features

Race matters

When I was thinking of a suitable title for this month’s column a number of ideas came to mind including “Decolonization is not a metaphor” and “Acknowledgement is not enough.”

Open for All?

Transformative conversation(s)

We take to heart the responses from Ontario Library Association (OLA) community members to the Open Shelf column Safe Spaces, and specifically the most recent post on race and privilege.

From the Editor

Hear to listen … Ici et tout ouïe

Have a strong feeling about something you read in Open Shelf? What to share your thoughts? Write a letter to the editor.

Editorial

Safe Spaces: Race & privilege

The Safe spaces column is an attempt to explore today’s persistent socio-cultural debates in light of the alleged values of the librarian profession: intellectual freedom, equity,…

Safe spaces

Safe spaces: The cultural appropriation debate

The Safe spaces column is an attempt to explore today’s persistent socio-cultural debates in light of the alleged values of the librarian profession: intellectual…

Safe spaces