Abstract:This study updates and extends Hand’s (2012) research on the transmission of Whiteness through public library youth collections in the early 1900s. Taking Hand’s study as a departure point, this case study of a southern, rural, public library asks whether and how Whiteness is still transmitted through the library’s youth collections. Analysis of Rural Branch Library’s (RBL) easy reader and juvenile biography collections confirms an overrepresentation of White authors and characters and storylines that privilege White racial frameworks. Analysis of RBL’s collection development policies and practices reveals that color-blind selection policies, lack of weeding, and constraints in resources and staffing create a structure that fosters the transmission of Whiteness in the youth collections over time. This study contributes to understandings of library collections as sites of social power and has implications for the collection development policies and practices of similarly situated small and rural public libraries.

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我们还在传播白度吗？南部农村图书馆青年馆藏的个案研究

摘要：该研究更新并扩展了Hand（2012）对1900年代初通过公共图书馆青年馆藏传播白度的研究。以此手的研究为出发点，以南部乡村公共图书馆的案例研究为例，该研究询问白度是否仍通过图书馆的青年馆藏传播。对农村分支图书馆（RBL）的易读和青少年传记收藏进行的分析证实，白人作家的过多代表以及赋予白人种族框架以特权的人物和故事情节。对RBL馆藏发展政策和实践的分析表明，色盲选择政策，除草不足以及资源和人员配备的局限性创造了一种结构，可促进白度随时间推移在青年馆藏中的传播。