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Critical Cataloging: Examining LCSH as Text: A Visualization by Mia Tignor

Prejudices and Antipathies Published

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.

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1. Prejudices and Antipathies Published 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.
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1. Prejudices and Antipathies Published 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.
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1. Mammies
2. Lynching--Criminal justice, administration of
6. Jewish Question
10. Catholics, Muslims, or Jews as Scientists
12. Race question (subdivision) The "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.
13. SALVATION
14. Castro urges House to allow Library of Congress to retire term "illegal alien"
15. Prejudices and Antipathies Published 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.
16. Republicans Letter to The Library of Congress about Illegal Alien Subject Heading
17. Library of Congress Letter Announcing Illegal Alien Change
20. Gipsies xx Rogues and vagabonds

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