User:Ssstephen/Reading/Fugitive Libraries

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Melissa Adler, study of the politics of library classification

Joy Buolamwini, Timnit Gebru, and Safiya Noble

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Should a library be neutral? Neutrality justifies disengagement

Catherine Allen Latimer, Nella Larsen, Regina Anderson Andrews, and Pura Belpré

"Carrollton, Georgia, librarian Edith Foster marked the spines of African-Americans’ books with a triangle, so readers of all races would know which texts were meant for whom"

Patterson Toby Graham, in his history of the struggle to integrate Alabama’s libraries, asks questions that are still pertinent today: “What is the role of a library and a librarian in an intolerant and fearful society? Have librarians been active agents or just passive observers in the ebb and flow of social change and social conscience?”