Anti-Racist Description Guidelines

The Institute's resources on Anti-Racist Description and Reparative Description are located in

P:\Othmer Library\Tech Services\Rep Desc

Reparative description that is undergone should be reporting in the Reparative Description Tracking sheet, found in the above folder.

Resources for Language, Voice, and Tone:

Reparative Description Controlled Vocabularies

Name	Year	Creator/Community	Location
Indigenous/Native
Brian Deer Classification Scheme	1977		https://xwi7xwa-library-10nov2016.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2019/06/Xwi7xwa-Classification-ver-04March2013P.pdf
Mashantucket Pequot Thesaurus of American Indian Terminology			unpublished; only in draft
BC First Nations Subject Headings - Names			http://branchxwi7xwa.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2011/09/bcfn.pdf
Native American Educational Services system (NAES closed in 2007)		Native American Educaional Services College: https://sites.northwestern.edu/naes/contact/	maybe Box 4, Folders 22-23 Book Lists at UChicago: https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.NAESCC
Ojibway-Cree Cultural Centre classification (mod of BDC)
National Indian Law Library Thesaurus			https://www.narf.org/nill/
Indigenous Materials Classification System
UBCIC Classification	2015	Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Resource Centre: library@ubcic.bc.ca	https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ubcic/pages/1166/attachments/original/1507335846/UBCICClassification.pdf?1507335846

LGBTQIA+
Homosaurus.org based on International Homo/Lesbian Informatiecentre & Archives and compiled by Jack van der Wel (with support of Ellen Greenblatt) in 2013		http://homosaurus.org/contact	http://homosaurus.org
International thesaurus of gay and lesbian index terms from the International Gay and Lesbian Information Center and Archive, or IHLIA; also called A Queer Thesaurus: An International Thesaurus of Gay and Lesbian Index Terms by Van Staalduinen	1997	IHLIA LGBT Heritage	Staalduinen, Ko van, and Henny Brandhorst. 1997. A queer thesaurus: an international thesaurus of gay and lesbian index terms. Amsterdam: Homodok.
LC Queer Subject Headings	2000	Library of Congress	https://www.dartmouth.edu/~jcd/qsubj.html
Gay Studies Thesaurus	1990		https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/3301787
LGBT Life Thesaurus from EBSCO (maybe called GLBT Thesaurus?)	2004		??
Sexual nomenclature : a thesaurus	1976		https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/1874699
LLACE Classification Scheme	2001	Lavender Library, Archives, and Cultural Exchange of Sacramento, Incorporated	hard copy from IU LGBTQ+ Library
[guidelines and glossary for describing trans people and bodies]		TransHub	https://www.transhub.org.au/language

Women
Nonsexist Thesaurus	1977		https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/3967813
A Women's Thesaurus	1987		https://iucat.iu.edu/catalog/4134205
Atria: Women's Thesarus (Netherlands)		Institute on Gender Equality and Women's Equality - info@atria.nl	https://institute-genderequality.org/library-archive/collection/thesaurus/

African American
Dorothy Porter classification system (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center - Archives at Howard University)	1930s/1940s	Moorland-Spingam Research Center (Howard University) - http://library.howard.edu/msrc/library	high level genre/subject areas listed in article: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/december-2018/cataloging-black-knowledge-how-dorothy-porter-assembled-and-organized-a-premier-africana-research-collection

Disability
North Carolina Vocabulary		North Carolina Council on Developmental Disabilities - https://nccdd.org/contact-us.html	https://nccdd.org/welcome/glossary-and-terms/category/glossary-of-disability-terms/3.html
Disabled People's Association of Singapore Glossary of Disability Terms		DPA of Singapore - https://www.dpa.org.sg/	https://www.dpa.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/DPA-Disability-Glossary-FINAL.pdf


Overall/Broad Schemas (To be Investigated)
~~Library of Congress Subject Schemes~~			http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/subjectSchemes.html
~~Open Metadata Registry~~			http://metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/list.html
Basel Register of Thesauri, Ontologies & Classifications (need to be investigated)		BARTOC - https://bartoc.org/en/contact	https://bartoc.org/en
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) Vocabularies (Camps, Ghettos, Terms)	2015?	EHRI - https://portal.ehri-project.eu/	https://portal.ehri-project.eu/vocabularies
The International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology, UN High Commissioner on Refugees Library and Forced Migration Online		The UN Refugee Agency	https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20191210165612/http://www.refugeethesaurus.org/

Terminology Crosswalk

Term		Is the person a / is the person from?		In Descriptions	LC Subject Heading	Non-LC Subject Heading	Notes
African				If ethnic/tribal identity can be determined, use it. If not, use "African."	If ethnic/tribal identity can be determined, use appropriate LCSH. If not, use "Africans."
Alaska man	and	An indigenous Alaskan man	use	Alaska Native man	Alaska Natives		LCSH scope note for "Alaska Natives": "Here are entered works on the indigenous peoples of Alaska treated collectively. Works about individual cultures and tribes in Alaska are entered under the name of the culture or tribe subdivided geographically." We use "Alaska Natives" when we do not know a more specific identity, but the person is an indigenous Alaskan. More specific Alaska Native terms include Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.
Alaska woman	and	An indigenous Alaskan woman	use	Alaska Native woman	Alaska Native women		LCSH scope note for "Alaska Natives": "Here are entered works on the indigenous peoples of Alaska treated collectively. Works about individual cultures and tribes in Alaska are entered under the name of the culture or tribe subdivided geographically." We use "Alaska Natives" when we do not know a more specific identity but the person is an indigenous Alaskan. More specific Alaska Native terms include: Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.
Aleut	and	Alaskan Aleutian Islands (which includes Unalaska)	use	Unangan	Aleuts--Alaska OR Aleut women-- Alaska	Unangan	Indigenous inhabitants of Aleutian Islands, which are split between Alaska and Russia. The Unangan speak an eastern dialect of Aleut; the Unangas a western dialect. Unalaska residents are Unangan.
Aleut	and	Russian Aleutian Islands	use	Unangas	Aleuts--Russia OR Aleut women-- Russia	Unangas	Indigenous inhabitants of Aleutian Islands, which are split between Alaska and Russia. The Unangan speak an eastern dialect of Aleut; the Unangas a western dialect. Unalaska residents are Unangan.
Anti- Christian				Replace with the appropriate term for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity. If identity can't be determined, use "man/woman/child/etc."	Use appropriate heading for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity.
Bisexual			use	Bisexual	Bisexuals, Bisexuals men, Bisexual women		See the Indiana University Libraries' website for an excellent list of all the LCSH relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community. https://libraries.indiana.edu/library- congress-subject-headings-lesbian-gay- bisexual-transgender-queer-and- intersex-lgbtqi-topics
Black		United States	use	African American	African Americans, African American women, African American children
Blind			use	"Person who is blind. " If sentence doesn't permit, use "blind person/children/etc."	Blind, Blind children, Blind women, Older blind people
Chilkat, Chillicat			use	Chilkat	Chilkat Indians, Chilkat women
Chinamen			use	Chinese men/Chinese people	Chinese
Chuckche			use	Chukchi	Chukchi
Chuckchi			use	Chukchi	Chukchi
Chukchee			use	Chukchi	Chukchi
Colored			use	African American	African Americans, African American women, African American children
Costumes				Replace with "clothing"	Clothing OR [X] clothing and dress" (e.g., "Islamic clothing and dress")
Curios				Replace "curios" with "items"
Deaf				"Person who is unable to hear. " If sentence doesn’t permit, use "deaf person."	Deaf, Deaf men, Deaf women, Deaf children
Deaf-mute				"Person who is unable to hear or speak"	Deaf, Deaf men, Deaf women, Deaf children
Eskimo, Esquimaux	and	Alaska, and no further info is available	use	Alaska Native	Alaska Natives, Alaska Native women, Alaska Native children		From Alaska Native Language Center website: "Most Alaskans continue to accept the name 'Eskimo,' particularly because 'Inuit' refers only to the Inupiat of northern Alaska, the Inuit of Canada, and the Kalaallit of Greenland, and it is not a word in the Yupik languages of Alaska and Siberia." Others say of usage of "Eskimo" in the Alaskan context, usage of "Eskimo" "in the media is usually accurate, as most northern indigenous peoples can safely be referred to as 'Eskimos,' but the term is a wide generalization, and most wide generalizations are offensive to those they encompass. If you find yourself about to use the term in conversation, try a more specific replacement. In Alaska, the most congenial would be 'Alaska Native.'" Our assumption is that legacy captions that refer to "Eskimos" are not observing distinctions among Inupiats, Yupiks, and “true” Alaskan Eskimos. Thus, if we cannot identify a more specific designation for someone labeled an Eskimo in Alaska, we use “Alaska Natives," not "Eskimos--Alaska."
Eskimo, Esquimaux	and	Alaska and identified as an Inuit	use	Inuit	Inuit, Inuit women, Inuit children
Eskimo, Esquimaux	and	Alaska and identified as a Yupik	use	Yupik	Yupik Eskimos, Yupik children
Eskimo, Esquimaux	and	Greenland	use	Inuit	Inuit, Inuit women, Inuit children
Garb				Replace with "clothing"	Clothing OR [X] clothing and dress" (e.g., "Islamic clothing and dress")
Gay			use	Gay	Gays		See the Indiana University Libraries' website for an excellent list of all the LCSH relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community: https://: libraries.indiana.edu/library-congress- subject-headings-lesbian-gay-bisexual- transgender-queer-and-intersex-lgbtqi- topics
Ghetto			use	replacement term may vary depending on context. "city neighborhood" is one example.	varies. Do not use LCSH "Inner cities."		"Ghetto" in titles and descriptions should be changed to "city."
Half-breed, creole, mixed breed	use			"of [XXXX] and [XXXX] descent.”
Handicapped	use			"Person with a physical disability." If sentence doesn’t permit, use "physically disabled person." Depending on context, this word in legacy language may also refer to people with mental disabilities. If so, use "person with mental disabilities."	People with physical disabilities OR People with mental disabilities
Heathen				Replace with the appropriate term for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity. If identity can't be determined, use "man/woman/child/etc."	Use appropriate heading for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity.
Homosexual man	use			Gay	Gays		See the Indiana University Libraries' website for an excellent list of all the LCSH relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community: https://: libraries.indiana.edu/library-congress- subject-headings-lesbian-gay-bisexual- transgender-queer-and-intersex-lgbtqi- topics
Homosexual woman	use			Lesbian	Lesbians (Note that "gay rights" is used by LCSH for gay and lesbian civil rights)		See the Indiana University Libraries' website for an excellent list of all the LCSH relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community: https://: libraries.indiana.edu/library-congress- subject-headings-lesbian-gay-bisexual- transgender-queer-and-intersex-lgbtqi- topics
Homosexuals	use			Gays and lesbians	Gays; Lesbians		See the Indiana University Libraries' website for an excellent list of all the LCSH relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community: https://: libraries.indiana.edu/library-congress- subject-headings-lesbian-gay-bisexual- transgender-queer-and-intersex-lgbtqi- topics
Hoonyah	use			Hoonah Indian	Alaska Natives	Hoonah Indians
Hydah	use			Haida Indian	Haida Indians, Haida women
Indian	and	from Alaska, more specific identity can't be determined	use	Alaska Native	Alaska Natives
Indian	and	North America except Alaska, more specific identity can't be determined	use	Native American	Indians of North America
		Pakistan and/or Indian		Pakistani, India, South Asian
		Thai, Myanmar, Vietnam		Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Southeast Asian
Indian	and	from place other than United States		Use appropriate term for indigenous group from that location. If a specific identity can't be determined, use "indigenous X," as in "indigenous Ecuadorians."	See appropriate term for indigenous group from that location. If a specific identity can't be ascertained, use "Indigenous peoples--[Place]"
Inner city			use	City	varies. Do not use LCSH "Inner cities."		"Inner city" in titles and descriptions should be changed to "city."
Inuit	and	Alaskan Inuit	use	Inupiat	Inupiat		Subdivide "Inupiat" geographically ONLY there is a geograpic term below the state level. (I.e., Inupiat--Alaska--Wrangell but not Inupiat--Alaska)
Inuit	and	Canadian Inuit	use	Inuit	Inuit, Inuit women, Inuit children
Inuit	and	Greenlandic Inuit	use	Inuit	Inuit--Greenland, Inuit women-- Greenland, Inuit children--Greenland	Kalaallit
Isleta			use	Isleta Indian	Isleta Indians
Kalaallit			use	Kalaallit	Inuit--Greenland, Inuit women-- Greenland, Inuit children--Greenland	Kalaallit	Specific tribe of Greenlandic Inuit
Kekchi			use	Kekchi Indian	Kekchi Indians
Laplander, Lapplander, Lapp			use	Sami	Sami (European people), Sami, Women		Subject heading for the place is Sápmi.
Lesbian			use	Lesbian	Lesbians (Note that "gay rights" is used by LCSH for gay and lesbian civil rights)		See the Indiana University Libraries' website for an excellent list of all the LCSH relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community: https://: libraries.indiana.edu/library-congress- subject-headings-lesbian-gay-bisexual- transgender-queer-and-intersex-lgbtqi- topics
Moslem			use	Muslim	Muslims
Mute			use	"Person who does not speak." If sentence doesn't permit, use "mute person."	Mute persons
Native				Replace with the appropriate term for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity. If identity can't be determined, use "man/woman/child/etc."	Use appropriate heading for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity.
Negro			use	African American	African Americans, African American women, African American children
Nez Perce			use	Nez Percé Indian	Nez Percé Indians
Pima			use	Pima Indian	Pima Indians
Pueblo			use	Pueblo Indian	Pueblo Indians
Shapra			use	Shapra Indian	Shapra Indians
Siberian	and	an indigenous Siberian with no further info about tribe	use	Siberian indigenous person	Indigenous peoples--Siberian
Slave				Use "enslaved," "captive" or "forced laborer." If ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity can be determined, include it: "captive Pueblo Indian."	Slaves, Child slaves, Indian slaves, Women slaves, Freedmen, Older slaves
Squaw				Replace with "woman" or "girl"	Use appropriate heading for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity.
Tchutchee			use	Chukchi	Chukchi
Teepees				Replace with "tipis"	Tipis
Thlinget, Thlinket			use	Tlingit Indian	Tlingit Indians, Tlingit children, Tlingit women
Transgender			use	transgender	Transgender people AND POSSIBLY ALSO Gender non-conforming people		See the Indiana University Libraries' website for an excellent list of all the LCSH relevant to the LGBTQIA+ community: https://: libraries.indiana.edu/library-congress- subject-headings-lesbian-gay-bisexual- transgender-queer-and-intersex-lgbtqi- topics
Tunguse, Tungusic			use	Evenki	Evenki (Asian people)
Tutchee			use	Chukchi	Chukchi
Uncivilised, uncivilized				Replace with the appropriate term for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity. If identity can't be determined, use "man/woman/child/etc."	Use appropriate heading for the ethnic/racial/tribal/national identity.
Yakut			use	Yakut	Yakut (Turkic people)
Yupik	and	Alaskan	use	Yup'ik	Yup'ik Eskimos, Older Yupik Eskimos, Yupik children	Yup'ik	Subdivide geographically only there is a geographic element below the state level (i.e., Yupik Eskimos--Alaska--Wrangell but not Yupik Eskimos--Alaska)
Yupik	and	Siberian / Russian	use	Yupighyt	Yuit Eskimos	Yupighyt