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

The West

As with several other terms (GREAT AWAKENING, NORTHWEST, OLD RECONSTRUCTION, SOUTHERN), THE WEST appears in LCSH without a geographic gloss (or descriptive terms) that would indicate that they are specific to the United States. As Berman states in his justifications, "[all] express a facet of distinctly American history or politics which lay foreigners cannot reasonably be expected to appreciate.

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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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3. Catholics, Muslims, or Jews as Scientists
4. Jewish Question
7. 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.
8. Mammies
9. Lynching--Criminal justice, administration of
10. Idiocy, Idiot Asylums
13. Gipsies xx Rogues and vagabonds

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Old West Painting