"The Shoe Is Too Small and Not Made for You!": Racial "Covering" and the Illusion of Fit

Authors

Silvia L. Lin Hanick, CUNY La Guardia Community CollegeFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter or Section

Publication Date

6-15-2018

Abstract

This chapter appears in In Our Own Voices, Redux: The Faces of Librarianship Today, edited by Teresa Y. Neely and Jorge R. López-McKnight. Using Kenji Yoshino's writings about racial covering, I use an autoethnography approach to investigate how I came into the field of librarianship. I reflect on my experience as a second-generation Taiwanese-American woman growing up in Southern California, going to library school in Illinois, and starting my career in New Mexico.

Comments

This work was originally published in "In Our Own Voices, Redux: The Faces of Librarianship Today," edited by Teresa Y. Neely and Jorge R. López-McKnight, and published by Rowman and Littlefield