This work was inspired by Dorothy Porter, an early 20th-century librarian at Howard University. She challenged the Dewey Decimal System, which segregated Black authors, by shelving them together with white authors. I attempt to neutralize the many \u2018isms\u2019\u2014ethnocentrism, classism, colonialism, sexism, racism\u2014embedded within the Library of Congress catalog cards, and reveal how these biases shape opinions, language, thought, and action. I draw attention to how information can be skewed, granting agency to some while stealing it from others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This work was inspired by Dorothy Porter, an early 20th-century librarian at Howard University. She challenged the Dewey Decimal System, which segregated Black authors, by shelving them together with white authors. I attempt to neutralize the many \u2018isms\u2019\u2014ethnocentrism, classism, colonialism, sexism, racism\u2014embedded within the Library of Congress catalog cards, and reveal how these biases shape … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":62,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reactions.nmtours.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reactions.nmtours.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/works"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reactions.nmtours.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/works"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reactions.nmtours.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}