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Critical Cataloging: Examining LCSH as Text: A Visualization by Mia Tignor
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Yellow Peril
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Such phraseology is of a piece with gutter epithets like "slope", "gook" and "chink". It is not only an affront to the people so labeled, but also demeans the user. How it has remained with us this long prehaps only the Sphnix can explain. Or a pathologist. See referent to other forms. Abundant heads are already available to handle material hitherto assigned YELLOW PERIL; e.g. EAST AND WEST and PAN-PACIFIC RELATIONS. The innovative form of RACISM might also be appropriate.
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This main page provides links to the timeline and the cluster visualization.
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Mammies
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An 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.
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Lynching--Criminal justice, administration of
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Third, 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.
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Mixed Bloods
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A 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.
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Mohammedanism, Mohammedans, etc
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Negroes
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Among Black Americans, "Negro" has increasingly become an object of derision, stigmatized as "Whitey's" language, an instrument of de-identification.
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Jewish Question
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On 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.
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The West
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Women As...
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Skeptics 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.
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Catholics, Muslims, or Jews as Scientists
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The 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.
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Genocide
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Race question (subdivision)
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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.
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SALVATION
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The problem thus does not revolve about the number or extent of these entries [on Christianity], but rather with the manner of presentation. If the scheme is to be truly disinterested in tone and universal in applicability, there must be a parity in approach towards all the various faiths that compose the earth's religious landscape.
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Castro urges House to allow Library of Congress to retire term "illegal alien"
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Congressman Castro urges his House colleagues to allow the Library of Congress to move forward with its proposal to retire the term "illegal alien" in its catalog ...
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Prejudices and Antipathies Published
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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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Republicans Letter to The Library of Congress about Illegal Alien Subject Heading
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There is no other way to put this: the Library has bowed to the political pressure of the moment. Such an action is beneath the dignity of the Library of Congress. Rather than engage in revisionist history, the Libary should base its decisions on sound judgement, taking actual history, present facts, and future research efforts into account.
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Library of Congress Letter Announcing Illegal Alien Change
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The phrase illegal aliens has taken on a pejorative tone in recent years, and in response, some institutions have determined that they will cease to use it. For example, in April 2014 the Associated Press announced that illegal would not be used as a descriptor for any individual.
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Berman Changes Made to LCSH, 1971-2006
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Visualize different changes to LCSH that reflect Berman's Original Suggestions.
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Gipsies xx Rogues and vagabonds
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Berman'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).
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Three Decades Since Prejudices and Antipathies: A Study of Changes in the Library of Congress Subject Headings Additional metadata
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Berman Changes Made to LCSH, 1971-2006
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Visualize different changes to LCSH that reflect Berman's Original Suggestions.
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Mixed Bloods
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A 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.
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Negroes
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Among Black Americans, "Negro" has increasingly become an object of derision, stigmatized as "Whitey's" language, an instrument of de-identification.
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Jewish Question
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On 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.
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Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans in the U.S., etc
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Catholics, Muslims, or Jews as Scientists
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The 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.
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Mammies
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An 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.
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Race question (subdivision)
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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.
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Women As...
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Skeptics 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.
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Lynching--Criminal justice, administration of
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Third, 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.
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Idiocy, Idiot Asylums
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Were 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.
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Native Races
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"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.
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Genocide
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Gipsies xx Rogues and vagabonds
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Berman'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).
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Mohammedanism, Mohammedans, etc
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Jewish and Negro criminals
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HOMOSEXUALITY & LESBIANISM
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Intelligence levels – Chinese – Javanese – Jews – Negroes – Shilluks
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Heresies and heretics; Heresy
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Deletions
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Jewish Question
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On 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.
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Mammies
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An 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.
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