Category: Race & Ethnicity

  • Lessons from Rhythms of Anger(s): Learning to Listen to them

    Lessons from Rhythms of Anger(s): Learning to Listen to them

    Lessons from Rhythms of Anger(s): Learning to Listen to them Anger is my crutch I hold myself upright with it —Chrystos, I Walk in the History of My People   Women of Color in America have grown up within a symphony of anger at being silenced at being unchosen, at knowing that when we survive, […]

  • Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase

    Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase

    “Otro Mundo es Posible”, by Beatriz Aurora, from her collection “Historias Pintadas: el color de la lucha zapatista”. Source: Araucanía Thinking-feeling the Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant Showcase The Futures Initiative supported eight student projects with the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts and Sciences Grant this year. On November 11th, we came together to share […]

  • Language: A Major Barrier for Vaccinations.

    Language: A Major Barrier for Vaccinations.

    On April 28th in Surrey, British Columbia, the Fraser Health Authority had opened up “pop up” clinics in order to mass vaccinate major hot spot areas in Surrey at Newton Athletic Park. This pop-up clinic opened with very communication amongst the public with hundreds showing up at the parks from word-of-mouth. After speaking with a […]

  • Race, Racism, and Scholarship on Premodern Race Today

    Dear colleagues,  It’s been a long time since I’ve posted on HASTAC—for which, my deep apologies—but just before the holidays, I published a blog essay entitled “Why the Hate? The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, and Race, Racism, and Premodern Critical race studies today”: https://www.inthemedievalmiddle.com/2020/12/why-hate-invention-of-race-i… The essay uses a 46-page screed (published as a book […]

  • Oregon and White Supremacy Annotated Bibliography

    Oregon and White Supremacy Annotated Bibliography

    I originally created this annotated bibliography as part of a project to design a survey about white supremacy in academic libraries for ACRL-Oregon.  During the ACRL-Oregon and Washington joint conference in October 2019, librarians discussed the 2017 shooting of a protester by a white supremacist student at the University of Washington.  Academic librarians expressed a […]

  • White Supremacy and Oregon Academic Libraries

      Why is it important to explore the relationship between white supremacy and academic libraries in general, let alone Oregon academic libraries?  The answer begins with statistics.  According to the most recent American Library Association diversity count, librarianship remains overwhelmingly white, with only 12% of credentialed librarians identifying as racial or ethnic minorities (“Diversity Counts” […]