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How Cute! Distracting Ourselves from Political Realities of Librarianship [Munch & Mull Digital Scholarship Discussion Group]

"How Cute! Race, Gender, and Neutrality in Libraries" (Schlesselman-Tarango, 2017) explores the role of white women who work in libraries and participate, to varying degrees, in the construction of the library, and librarians, as ahistorical, performing a type of childlike innocence/cuteness as a way to disengage politically. Schlesselman-Tarango looks specifically at the intersection of a certain construction of femininity and de-politicization of race in libraries. There remains a larger question of how this “cuteness” or avoidance of politicization may operate in other domains of librarian work: for example, librarian salaries, policing of gender in libraries, or emotional labor done at public-facing service points.

Date:
Monday, March 12, 2018 Show more dates
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Bostock 121 (Murthy Digital Studio)
Campus:
West Campus
Categories:
Digital Scholarship   Events @ the Edge  

Munch & Mull is a Libraries-based discussion group that holds weekly, informal, brown-bag lunch conversations around issues, projects, methods, and trends in digital scholarship. All are welcome!

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