Race and diversity

Archives For Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLiP) is a loose association of archivists, librarians, and allied professionals in the area responding to the issues raised by the Black Lives Matter movement. The group was inspired by Jarrett Drake, formerly Digital Archivist at Princeton University, and his work to end archives' erasure of Black lives. they have just 

published their Anti-Racist Description Resources document at the end of last year, available here https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/ardr_final.pdf

Africa's contribution to academic knowledge production on Africa itself has been suppressed by publishing infrastructures. It's time to publish in Kiswahili.

Speaker(s):Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Dr Wangui wa Goro, Dr Romina Istratii,
Published on16 January 2020
A crucial conversation with leading thinkers on current attempts to decolonise Eurocentric knowledge systems in Africa, and their role in challenging the enduring effects of colonialism in African and global society.

Includes Kingston university. UCL, 

Frederick Douglass Newspapers, 1847 to 1874

A new great collection from the library of congress which is free online for all.

The former slave and abolitionist edited a number of newspapers 565 issues of three weekly newspaper titles can be accessed they are: Frederick Douglass' Paper., North Star and New National Era.

All contain features on black civil rights, abolition of slavery,  race relations in the USA and black culture and self-improvement.. There are galleries of selected images and essays and teacher’s resources which set the materials in context. They help students to understand also r the historical context of the language relating to race used in the content which would now be considered outdated and on occasions unacceptable.

First release of staff data for 2018/19 covering demographic and contract characteristics of staff at UK higher education providers.

from HESA.

Diversity Initiatives to Recruit and Retain Academic Librarians: A Systematic Review   . this focuses upon the USA  finding more effort focussed on early career librarians than other groups.

In 2018, JSTOR received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the digitization of 680 out-of-print titles from El Colegio de México Press and the dissemination of those titles on an openly accessible basis. In a new white paper, we document the significance of this work,

Britain’s past weighs on our present: learning about it would mean a better debate about race and migration, says academic and author Maya Goodfellow

The West focuses only on slavery, but the history of Africa is so much more than a footnote to European imperialism  - great blog post.

The British Honours system and its link to empire is outdated and inappropriate, it must change.

Dr Zubaida Haque, Runnymede Trust Deputy Director, said:

“It’s astonishing to think that there has been a significant and growing black and ethnic minority population in this country (now one in six people) since the arrival of Empire Windrush in 1948 and yet we have never had a non-white Supreme Court judge, or a Civil Service Permanent Secretary or a CEO of FTSE-100 companies who is a woman of colour

Higher levels of dissatisfaction and anxiety reported in BAME students

Sir John Parker, EY and BEIS launch new Parker Review report, which reveals over a third of FTSE 100 boards surveyed still lack ethnic representation

Inclusive language remains a hot topic. Despite decades of empirical evidence and revisions of formal language use, many inclusive adaptations of English and German continue to be ignored or contested. But how to convince speakers of the importance of inclusive language? Rewriting Language provides one possible answer:

open access book from UCL press

Event held at Goldsmiths University, January 24th 2020. twitter feeds. see snapshots of presenters and their projects

CRL and East View Information Services have released Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Newspapers, these comprise 15 open access newspapers from mid 19th century onwards

Content in MENA Newspapers is predominantly in Arabic, but also includes key titles in English and French, featuring titles such as Al-Iqbal (Lebanon), Al Akhaa al Watani (Iraq), Tangier Gazette (Morocco), and La Vérité (Algeria).Offers insight into world events such as the fall of the Ottoman Empire

Microinsults, microinvalidations and other forms of covert racism are increasing in schools, a BME teachers’ conference organised by the NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union, has heard.

Men and women from African-Caribbean communities in the UK have higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide risk and are more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia

British people make clear distinctions between immigrants based on their country of origin (Figure 4). Just 10% of a 2017 sample (surveyed online) said that no Australians should be allowed to come and live in Britain compared to 37% saying that no Nigerians should be allowed. In between are France (similar to Australia) Poland (more middling), and Romania and Pakistan (more similar to Nigeria). Such patterns have sometimes been described as an ‘ethnic hierarchy’ (Ford, 2011). At the preferred end of the scale are those who are white, English-speaking, Europeans and Christian countries while at the least preferred are non-whites, non-Europeans and Muslim countries.

Learning how adapt to a British university after studying at an Algerian one was a tricky transition for PhD student Riadh Ghemmour

An interview with Jess Crilly, Associate Director Content and Discovery at University of the Arts UAL has done extensive work on decolonising the Collections over the last couple of years.