A total of 8 000 crates have been donated to UCT by Pick n Pay to assist in the salvaging and storing of academic material damaged at the African Studies Library.
Critical race theory is the latest attempt by the most privileged people in our society to displace the blame for their mismanagement of the country onto the people below them.
In an effort disrupt what it calls whiteness and white supremacy in libraries , the University of Wisconsin s Gender and Women s Studies Library has published a reading list for students that includes sections on Whiteness ; Microaggressions ; and Decolonizing Research and Knowledge.
The school says it regularly creates these kinds of reading lists in response to requests from students, though others tell Fox News these kinds of efforts to raise awareness on the history and impact of racism are in reality fostering greater division and racial animosity on campus.
Chrissy Clark • January 19, 2021 4:50 pm
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The University of Wisconsin s library system published a reading list for students on disrupting whiteness and white supremacy in libraries.
Among the suggested readings are Ibram X. Kendi s bestseller
How to Be an Antiracist and Layla F. Saad s
Me and White Supremacy, as well as several books on decolonizing research and knowledge. The list, created by the school s Gender and Women s Studies Library, also includes a small subsection arguing in favor of critical librarianship, which asks librarians to analyze how they support systems of oppression. One of the suggested readings claims that white people use the concept of cuteness to make whiteness appear harmless and universal. Another argues that libraries should not be neutral or apolitical spaces.