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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”…
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Scholar Spotlight: Ramneet Kaur Bhullar
1. Why did you apply to HASTAC? HASTAC was brought my attention from a professor at my current university, Dr. Janni Aragon at UVIC. I was a first-year transfer student still trying to find my bearings in my new community and in academia. Before joining UVIC and having the opportunity to participate in HASTAC, I…
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A Philosophical Review So Far of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me
“But all our phrasing … serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence,…
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The Problem of Defining Civilization
“Civilized” is often used as loaded ethical language. Traditionally, whenever we praise human action, we call it “civilized,” whether it is table manners or peacemaking. This use of the word civilized leads us to the assumption that civilization is good, and hunter-gatherer culture bad. The view that civilization is bad and hunter-gatherer culture…
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Where Do We Go From Here? Building Community in the Post-COVID Public University
Like many people, I feel that my world has turned upside down. But has the world turned upside down? Yes, lots of things are very different today than they were three months ago–we no longer enter stores without masks on, go to cafes, or ride the subway at night. However, much remains the same. The…
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Chapter 5: Black America, Brought to You by …
Tom Burrell founded Burrell Communications in 1971, a pioneer in Black advertising By Lisa Covington The development in marketing and advertising strategies were one facet of McDonald’s evolution, the second is the value of the community engagement and cultural context individual owners incorporated regularly. In Franchise, Chatelain provides an overview of how Black people from middle…
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On Dissertating During Quarantine
When my cohort received the news last month that the library was shutting down until further notice, we messaged each other frantically on our group Facebook chat. What on earth are we going to do without the stacks? We—my small PhD cohort of five—had just finished our comprehensive exams in February and had been planning…
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3 HASTAC Scholars Interview Dr. Chatelain
Three HASTAC Scholars Interviewed Dr. Chatelain: Mai Ibrahim: Franchise is a very interesting read. What inspired you to write it? I’ve always been fascinated about the way that people involved in nutritional advocacy and food justice have talked about the eating habit of poor people of color. I often find that there is a lot…
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Chapter 6: A Fair Share of the Pie
Chapter 6 focuses on two lawsuits against McDonald’s by black franchisees in 1970s and 1980s Los Angeles. Litigants, James T. Jones and Charles Griffis, accused McDonald’s of barring black entrepreneurs from ownership opportunities within the corporation by restricting their employment to black, mostly impoverished, neighborhoods. Such contracting practices, they claimed, unduly burdened minority owners with…
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Chapter 7: The Miracle of the Golden Arches
“What do your research and scholarship—RIGHT NOW—challenge and remake? What do your institutional practices—RIGHT NOW—challenge and remake?” At the October 2019 Conference on Community Writing in Philadelphia, an event that brings together teachers, scholars, artists, activists and community organizers, Carmen Kynard asked the above questions in “All I Need is One Mic”: A Black…