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<p class="MsoNormal">As I recall, there was a similar discussion a few years back about a Form/Genre term for what came to be defined as “Hate Literature” based on a similar cataloger’s conundrum about terms to use for hateful literature, and a discussion of
what term(s) to use on this list? And the decision then was to use a neutral “descriptive” term – Literature of prejudice -- rather than a term like Anti-Semitic literature? (See below for cut-and-paste from the rbgenr thesaurus.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I wonder if this term might be used in the context Erin points up, in addition to the 650 “Stereotypes” term Bob mentions? (I myself have found these both useful in cataloging some Cotsen materials – containing either racist terms -- and
especially imagery or illustrations – or jingoistic nationalistic stereotypes – British depictions of the French, as well as of other peoples encountered via empire and imperialism.)
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking now at the other “Used For” and “Narrower” terms from the current listing for Literature of Prejudice, I think that we might want to add to the list of other terms to specifically mention racist literatire, based on more recent
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<a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/index.shtml">Controlled Vocabularies</a>:
<a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/alphabetical_list.htm">Genre Terms</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/hierarchical_list.htm">Hierarchical List</a><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr599.htm"><< Literary miscellanies</a> | Literature of prejudice |
<a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/th111.htm">Hierarchical View</a> | <a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr603.htm">
Literature of protest >></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Literature of prejudice<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Scope Note<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Use for literature that expresses a negative sentiment toward a particular group of society, especially for reasons based on religion, race, gender, creed, or national origin.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Used For<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr541.htm">Hate literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Used For<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr600.htm">Prejudice, literature of</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Broader Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr88.htm">Political works</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr110.htm">Anti-Catholic literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr112.htm">Anti-clerical literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr113.htm">Anti-communist literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr114.htm">Anti-homosexual literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr115.htm">Anti-immigrant literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr116.htm">Anti-Masonic literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr117.htm">Anti-Semitic literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr601.htm">White supremacist literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Narrower Term<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a href="https://rbms.info/vocabularies/genre/tr602.htm">Xenophobic literature</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jeff Barton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cotsen Children's Library Cataloger<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 8, 2020 6:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Cataloging American songsters, and other racist material<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's a problem that I and many others have wrestled with for years. There's no LCSH term for racist material - or even one that comes close. And even what you find is sometimes inappropriate. Example: portrayals of performers in blackface.
We know that until the end the 19th century, blackface performers were white. Yet you'll often find the heading:
<b>African Americans</b> $x <b>Songs and Music</b>. I feel it's incorrect to apply this heading to racist, demeaning or negative content.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What I've done in the past is have one heading for <b>African Americans</b> and another heading for <b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Stereotypes (Social psychology)<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> $z </span></strong>United
States. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At times I think I've added a third heading (which I can't recall at the moment). Clumsy yes, but I've yet to find something better.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More recently (for this songster project), I've been able to use
<b>Minstrel music</b> $z <b>Texts </b>- both the subject and genre headings indicate that this is work performed by people in blackface. Those headings avoid the issue of whether the content is problematic, perhaps leaving us to suggest that *all* minstrel
music is problematic (I believe it is, even if it's instrumental music parodying or fantasizing about how African American might have played - no texts needed). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">When it gets to images, that's also something that makes me feel uncomfortable. Fortunately there's a heading
<b>Blackface entertainers</b>. The heading for Blackface itself provides a good number of scope notes explaining the social context of blackface and minstrelsy. Another heading would appear to be
<b>African Americans</b> $s <b>Caricatures and cartoons</b>. I add the stereotype heading to that too.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">[Excursis: Having done a digital project involving over 1,000 pieces of sheet music of the 1890s, I was always very puzzled why suddenly beginning in 1895 there is an explosion of
racists covers. Then recently someone suggested a possible explanation: The Supreme Court's
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott">Dred Scott case</a> was decided in 1896, so the arguments would have occurred in 1895. I've yet to hear a better explanation.]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:14 PM Erin Blake <<a href="mailto:erin.blake.folger@gmail.com">erin.blake.folger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is a follow-up on Bob Kosovsky's description of the American songsters he's cataloging in the "Machine-press special collections" thread, where he wrote "if anyone doubts the racism rampant in the second half of the 19th century, one
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<p class="MsoNormal">With songsters, you can get pretty far in surfacing racist content by transcribing all the titles into the table of contents: researchers can search for well-known derogatory keywords in direct quotes. But I'd love to have a genre term
that would convey something along the lines of "655 _4 $a Deeply disturbing racist material that would have been considered perfectly ordinary by most middle-class white Americans at the time" when the ostensible subject is simply "650_0 $a Country life." <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm particularly interested in how to bring racist content in prints and figurines to light, given that there's usually nothing to transcribe, so keyword searching for directly-quoted derogatory terms won't help. There are also times where
the racist content is technically just a minor part of a generic "background" ... but I don't want to omit mentioning the background racism when summarizing the visual content in the 520. Not only is it currently a topic of great interest to researchers, but
ignoring it would make me complicit in treating it as unremarkable.<o:p></o:p></p>
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