Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight. Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021. 358p. Paper, $35.00 (ISBN 978-0262043502).

Abstract

Throughout library history, the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) have not been centered, thoroughly documented, or affirmed. Marginalized and underrepresented. Those have been the adjectives used to describe people of color in the library field. Over the last couple of decades, library and information science (LIS) scholars and practitioners have begun to fill out the LIS literature by writing their own ideas, experiences, and histories. Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, edited by Sofia Y. Leung and Jorge R. López-McKnight, is a groundbreaking text that is the first book that introduces and explicitly applies critical race theory (CRT) to the LIS field. Knowledge Justice is composed of three sections, each with an introduction by foundational CRT/LIS scholars and 13 chapters.