Racial microaggressions, power and privilege in libraries
an analysis of discourses in The Microaggressions Project and Microaggressions in Librarianship
Abstract
This article starts from the following question: How are racial microaggressions manifested in libraries? The general objective is to understand how racial microaggressions manifest themselves in libraries, based on the testimonies analyzed in The Microaggressions Project (TMP) and Microaggressions in Librarianship (ML). This objective unfolds into specific objectives, which seek to: a) conceptualize microaggressions, characteristics and their spheres and b) to analyze, from the testimonies collected in the TMP and ML, how racial microaggressions materialize in libraries and in the speeches of librarians. At the methodological level, it is a qualitative documental, bibliographical, exploratory and descriptive research divided into three stages: literature review, extraction of a sample of publications that referred to racial microaggressions and analysis of publications in the profiles on trumblr TMP's and ML.
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