Confronting Anti-Asian Racism: A Statement on (In)visibility and Targeted Online Harassment
Feature Reanna Esmail Feature Reanna Esmail

Confronting Anti-Asian Racism: A Statement on (In)visibility and Targeted Online Harassment

Despite the recent spotlight on targeted online harassment affecting universities and faculty members, its effects on libraries and library workers remain largely invisible. To address this gap, Reanna Esmail recounts her recent experience of anti-Asian racism resulting from the media's coverage of an event originally intended to confront anti-Asian racism. To set the record straight, she provides and contextualizes the original transcript. To shift the spotlight back from herself onto systemic issues, she examines the social construction of visibility in other recent cases of targeted online harassment affecting library workers and threatening academic freedom.

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The House Archives Built
Dorothy Berry, Feature Dorothy Berry Dorothy Berry, Feature Dorothy Berry

The House Archives Built

The current trend focusing on liberating the concept of archives from physical institutions has served to mentally leave behind Black collections held in predominantly white institutions. Dorothy Berry reflects on the conflict of archives versus the archives, and how the fundamental structures of archives can disserve Black archival subjects by foregrounding ownership, collecting, and homogeneity.

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The Displays: On Anti-Racist Study and Institutional Enclosure
David James Hudson, Feature Up Root Publication David James Hudson, Feature Up Root Publication

The Displays: On Anti-Racist Study and Institutional Enclosure

The middle months of 2020 saw a surge in apparent institutional interest in Black freedom struggles, an intensified emphasis on information-sharing and study as anti-racist responses, and a frenzied circulation of anti-racist reading lists. David James Hudson explores the current dynamics of and historical backdrop to this institutional attention, reflecting in particular on what both the intensified interest and the make-up of the reading lists can tell us about the dynamics of anti-racism under racial capitalism.

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