Conducting Research from an Anti-Racism Lens
A new resource to the Library’s Anti-Racism Resources Libguide is Conducting Research Through an Anti-Racism Lens. Created by the librarians at the University of Minnesota, this resource was created for researchers looking to incorporate anti-racism into their research practices.
Conducting research through an anti-racism lens is a long-term and ongoing process and must be considered as part of a complex system that oppresses people and groups in multifaceted ways (i.e., classism, ethnocentrism, capitalism, casteism, etc.). The guide reveals examples of racist research systems and practices such as search algorithms, scholarly publishing, and library cataloging & classification systems. It also shares resources for mitigating those problematic systems and practices. One such resource: A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration, created by Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy that discusses problematic practices in research and compares them with positive practices to utilize.
Visit the Library’s Anti-Racism Resources Libguide for this and other useful research tools.