Current Issue: Spring 2022
Research Article
Spring 2022
Discursive Perpendicularity: Intersections of Black Print Culture Studies and Bibliography
Jesse R. Erickson
The summer of 2020 was a watershed moment in the United States. The brutal murder of George Floyd sparked a national conversation on racial politics that penetrated all aspects of American society. Both the private and the public sectors were forced to grapple with the impact that anti-Black racism has had on Black Americans; and many businesses and institutions were compelled not only to affirm a stated commitment to antiracist practice but also to bring about constructive change within their own organizational operations. ...
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Editor's Note • Spring 2022
Editor's Note
Richard Saunders
Because this issue has run short (sorry about that; editorial complications), I’ve indulged myself with a bit more of a reflective essay than what normally occupies this spot. COVID has sparked in me a fair bit of thought about the work we do and what we write about as working professionals. ...
Book Review • Spring 2022
Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877–1920
Reviewed by Alison Fraser
Dietrich’s Writing Across the Color Line is one of the most recent titles from the University of Massachusetts Press’ Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book series. Employing archival research to historicize the first major period of publication of “ethnic authors [by] well-known trade publishers” (3), Writing Across the Color Line explores the networks between publisher and book, editor and author, and critic and reviewer. In five case studies presented across four chapters ...
Book Review • Spring 2022
Indigenous Textual Cultures: Reading and Writing in the Age of Global Empire
Reviewed by Julie K. Tanaka
Indigenous Textual Cultures is a cohesive, well-edited collection of twelve articles written by an international community of experts in indigenous cultures and colonialism. Its geographic scope includes indigenous cultures from Australasia, North America, and the Pacific and is further enhanced with the inclusion of Africa, which has not received the same attention as recent work on indigenous studies in these other areas. ...
Book Review • Spring 2022
Archives and Special Collections as Sites of Contestation
Reviewed by Bradley J. Wiles
In the LIS and Archival Studies disciplines, attempts to operationalize theoretical frameworks that bring to center critical interpretations of social justice, intersectionality, and EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) are frequently covered in professional literature focusing on institutional policies and programmatic enhancements in real world settings. ...