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• 1 media/prejudies.PNG media/prejudies.PNG 2017-04-03T17:53:39-07:00 Prejudices and Antipathies Published 14 Prejudices and Antipathies is Sanford Berman's 1971 monograph that calls attention to racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive subject headings in Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and urges catalogers to update the headings to reflect the accurately and respectfully reflect the populations they define. Berman's book provides 225 suggested changes to LCSH, all of which are concerned with describing materials about people or persons. plain 2017-05-02T14:10:33-07:00 1971 Prejudices and Antipathies is Sanford Berman's 1971 monograph that calls attention to racist, sexist, or otherwise offensive subject headings in Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) and urges catalogers to update the headings to reflect the accurately and respectfully reflect the populations they define.  Berman's book provides 225 suggested changes to LCSH, all of which are concerned with describing materials about people or persons. Users can interact with Berman (and others) changes and suggestions in several different ways.
  
  First, you can navigate through the timeline to view a selection of LCSH that have been changed and reflect Berman's suggestions. These LCSH include Berman's original justifications for changes, additional content, and links to work by other noteworthy cataloging activists.
  
  Second, view all of the LCSH that were "changed in ways that reflect Berman's suggestions". This data set is pulled directly from Steven Knowlton's Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings.