Post by wapentake on Aug 20, 2024 12:36:03 GMT
This from the Welsh govt advisers.
Librarians should avoid holding meetings in “racist” buildings, decolonisation training experts have advised.
Libraries across Wales have been given the task of becoming “anti-racist”, in line with the devolved Labour government’s pledge to “eradicate” systemic racism by 2030.
Training is being devised as part of a £130,000 project to instruct local librarians in “critical whiteness studies” and how to deal with issues like the “dominant paradigm of whiteness”.
Advisers on the process have made clear that planned training sessions should not take place in buildings with a “racist” past.
The guidance comes after dozens of buildings in Wales, from pubs to community centres, were added to a 2021 government-backed dossier of sites linked to slavery and colonialism.
Libraries across Wales have been given the task of becoming “anti-racist”, in line with the devolved Labour government’s pledge to “eradicate” systemic racism by 2030.
Training is being devised as part of a £130,000 project to instruct local librarians in “critical whiteness studies” and how to deal with issues like the “dominant paradigm of whiteness”.
Advisers on the process have made clear that planned training sessions should not take place in buildings with a “racist” past.
The guidance comes after dozens of buildings in Wales, from pubs to community centres, were added to a 2021 government-backed dossier of sites linked to slavery and colonialism.
