Anti-Racist Description Guidelines

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

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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

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unpublished; only in draft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

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

 

 

Committed suicide

 

 

use

replace with “died by suicide”

 

 

following 2023 guidelines from various mental health resources

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