Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early formations: tracing the historical operations of whiteness -- A revisionist history of Andrew Carnegie's library grants to black colleges / Shaundra Walker -- Interrogating whiteness in college and university archival spaces at predominantly white institutions / Nicole M. Joseph, Katherine M. Crowe, and Janiece Mackey -- The academic research library's white past and present / Ian Beilin -- Present topographies: surveying whiteness in contemporary LIS -- The weight of being a mirror : a librarian's short autobiography / Sarah Hannah Gómez -- Looking the part / Jessica Macias -- Nostalgia, cuteness, and geek chic : whiteness in Orla Kiely's Library / Vani Natarajan -- White feminism and distributions of power in academic libraries / Megan Watson -- Who killed the world? : White masculinity and the technocratic library of the future / Rafia Mirza and Maura Seale -- The whiteness of practicality / David James Hudson -- Fissures: imagining new cartographies -- Mapping topographies from the classroom : addressing whiteness in the LIS curriculum / Nicole A. Cooke, Katrina Spencer, Jennifer Margolis Jacobs, Cass Mabbott, Chloe Collins, and Rebekah M. Loyd -- Mapping whiteness at the reference desk / April M. Hathcock and Stephanie Sendaula -- My librarianship is not for you / Jorge Ricardo López-McKnight -- Breaking down borders : dismantling whiteness through international bridges / Natalie Baur, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, and George Apodaca -- Disrupting whiteness : three perspectives on white anti-racist librarianship / with essays by Melissa Kalpin Prescott, Kristyn Caragher, and Katie Dover-Taylor.

"Exploring the diverse terrain that makes up library and information science (LIS), this collection features the work of scholars, practitioners, and others who draw from a variety of theoretical approaches to name, problematize, and ultimately fissure whiteness at work. Contributors not only provide critical accounts of the histories of whiteness - particularly as they have shaped libraries and archives in higher education - but also interrogate current formations, from the policing of people of color in library spaces to imagined LIS futures. This volume also considers possibilities for challenging oppressive legacies and charting a new course towards anti-racist librarianship, whether in the classroom, at the reference desk, or elsewhere."--Back cover.