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1media/viz.PNG2017-05-01T07:51:59-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43790918Visualize different changes to LCSH that reflect Berman's Original Suggestions.vistag2017-05-02T11:15:53-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Navigate the visualization to see how various subject terms have changed over time. Click on each circle to see more changes.
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1media/LOC.PNG2017-04-29T08:08:21-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Critical Cataloging: Examining LCSH as TextMia Tignor29This main page provides links to the timeline and the cluster visualization.timeline2017-05-02T10:36:27-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
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12017-04-03T18:08:34-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Mixed Bloods12A colorful, frontier-style term that no doubt appeals to whole generations on Cowboy-and-Indian thrillers, it nevertheless represents shoddy science and the White Man's hauteur.plain2017-05-02T07:25:16-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
12017-04-29T09:24:33-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Negroes12Among Black Americans, "Negro" has increasingly become an object of derision, stigmatized as "Whitey's" language, an instrument of de-identification.plain2017-05-02T07:28:22-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
1media/Warsaw Getto.PNG2017-04-03T18:05:13-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Jewish Question11On the face of it, the "Jewish Question" might seem a bland, neutral term. Yet it is just the opposite, masquerading ruthlessness and inhumanity-the age-old and altogether vicious practice of scapegoating-in a deceptive, leisurely abstraction. The phraseology is that of the oppressor, the ultimate murderer, not the victim.plain2017-05-02T08:31:57-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
12017-05-01T09:19:59-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans in the U.S., etc11plain2017-05-02T08:43:33-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
1media/gregor.PNG2017-05-01T10:15:03-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Catholics, Muslims, or Jews as Scientists11The presumption, as with all such "as" forms, is that Catholics [or Jews, or any religious group that isn't Protestant] aren't likely to become scientists due to some quasi hereditary or doctrinal defect.plain4329822017-05-02T09:52:33-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
1media/race Question.PNG2017-05-01T07:56:31-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Race question (subdivision)10The "question" is one of maintaining group (or better, human) integrity and dignity, of ending oppression and the soul-wracking uncertainty that pervades their daily lives; more positively stated: of winning those elemental rights that numberless individual conventions and proclamations have promised to everyone on earth, of becoming free, whole persons who command their own destinies and contribute fully to the body politic of which they form a part.plain2017-05-02T08:30:54-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
1media/Kara Walker and Guests.PNGmedia/Kara Walker and Guests.PNG2017-05-01T07:24:21-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Mammies10An Afro-American woman, when asked what she thought of the word, responded unhesitatingly, "I wouldn't want to be called one." It might be sound policy for LC catalogers to first query Black LC staffers before elevating antebellum plantation slang to primary head status.plain2017-05-02T09:25:14-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
1media/librarians.PNGmedia/librarians.PNG2017-04-29T19:02:04-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Women As...10Skeptics not convinced that the "as" is a reflex of male chauvinism are invited to cite comparable terms assigned to the other sex; e.g., MEN AS ACCOUNTANTS. But they needn't bother, of course. They aren't there.plain2017-05-02T09:37:52-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
1media/antilynching.jpg2017-05-01T10:43:25-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Lynching--Criminal justice, administration of9Third, no connection is made between lynching and terrorism, nor between the act itself and its historically well known victims: Black people. And fourth, the appearance of “Criminal Justice, administration” as the sole “xx” lends the term, as well as the practice it denotes, a certain dignity, if not if not legitimacy.plain4329822017-05-02T10:37:13-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
12017-04-29T19:26:10-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Idiocy, Idiot Asylums8Were this a subject list published in the last century and never revised since, such terms might pass unremarked, the assumption being that at that distant time people didn't know any better and that on no account would any library still employ such a collection of antique absurdities as a cataloging tool.plain4329822017-05-02T09:50:36-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
12017-05-01T18:13:36-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Native Races7"Native" is the sort of word employed by a European or American, not an African or Asian. That it connotatively expresses a White supremacist or "bwana" attitude.plain2017-05-02T09:30:51-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
12017-05-01T11:06:25-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43Gipsies xx Rogues and vagabonds6Berman's original remedy of simply removing "Rogues and vagabonds" from the subject heading of GIPSIES was a valuable first step, but the term Gypsy is frequently considered to be a slur. LOC updated the GIPSY LCSH in 2000 to Romanies, citing that the term was now the preferred terminology "among scholars and Gypsy groups" (LC Collections Policy Statements, 2000).plain2017-05-02T08:23:06-07:00Mia Tignor732ec600de8396e51dd65ae9c3bef67cc89e9f43
