Isabel Espinal, Ph.D., M.L.I.S.
Publications
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Adkins, Denice, and Isabel Espinal. 2004. “The Diversity Mandate.” Library Journal 129 (7): 52–54. https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=the-diversity-mandate.
Ashkenazy, E., and Isabel Espinal. “World Autism Interviews: Isabel Espinal / New England.” All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism, edited by Lydia X. Z Brown and Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, DragonBee Press, 2017.
Attridge Bufton, Martha, and Isabel Espinal. “Inclusive Librarianship: On Whiteness.” Open Shelf, 11 Nov. 2018, http://open-shelf.ca/181105-inclusive-librarianship-race-position-and-intersections/.
Espinal, Isabel. “A Bridge to Brown: Politics and Theory of Latin@ Reading.” Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies, edited by Agustín Laó-Montes and Nancy Raquel Mirabal, Lexington Books, 2007, pp. 359–80.
Espinal, Isabel, Anne Graham, Maria Rios, and Katherine Freedman. 2023. “Counterspace Support for BIPOC Employees Within a Holistic JEDI Library Framework.” In Perspectives on Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Libraries, 1–19. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7255-2.ch001.
Espinal, Isabel, Tonia Sutherland, and Charlotte Roh. 2018. “A Holistic Approach for Inclusive Librarianship: Decentering Whiteness in Our Profession.” Library Trends 67 (1): 147–62. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/108100.
Espinal, Isabel. “A New Vocabulary for Inclusive Librarianship: Applying Whiteness Theory to Our Profession.” The Power of Language = El Poder de La Palabra : Selected Papers from the Second REFORMA National Conference, edited by Lillian Castillo-Speed, Libraries Unlimited, 2001, pp. 131–49, https://works.bepress.com/isabel_espinal/5/.
---. Clean Sheets. La Candelaria, 1996. Open WorldCat, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38130024.
Espinal, Isabel, April Hathcock, and Maria Rios. 2021. “Dewhitening Librarianship: A Policy Proposal for Libraries.” In Knowledge Justice: Disrupting Library and Information Studies through Critical Race Theory, edited by Sofia Y Leung and Jorge R López-McKnight, 223–40. Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11969.003.0017.
Espinal, Isabel. “El Incansable Juego -The Untiring Game: Dominican Women Writing and Translating Ourselves.” Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas, edited by Sonia E. Alvarez et al., Duke University Press, 2014, pp. 95–106, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv120qs7g.9.
---. Kiskeyanas Valientes En Este Espacio: Dominican Women Writers and the Spaces of Contemporary American Literature. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2018, https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1235.
---. “Microaffections and Microaffirmations: Refusing to Reproduce Whiteness via Microaffirmative Actions.” Dismantling Constructs of Whiteness in Higher Education, edited by Teresa Y. Neely and Margie Montañez, Routledge, 2022, pp. 65–76, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003029564-7.
---. “Wanted: Latino Librarians.” Críticas, vol. 3, no. 5, Oct. 2003, pp. 19–24, https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=wanted-latino-librarians#_.
Espinal, Isabel, Pete Smith, et al. We’ve Failed at Diversifying Our Librarian Ranks, Now What ? A Plan for Addressing the “Pipeline” Problem. 2018. works.bepress.com, https://works.bepress.com/isabel_espinal/9/.
Espinal, Isabel. “What Do Latino Students Know Anyway about Information Literacy?” Versed: Bulletin of the Office for Diversity, American Library Association, vol. 1, no. 1, Jan. 2004, pp. 2–4, http://works.bepress.com/isabel_espinal/12/.
Espinal, Isabel R. Microaffections & Microaffirmations in Library Learning. 2020. works.bepress.com, https://works.bepress.com/isabel_espinal/11/.
Espinal, Isabel “Rosi.” “El Paraíso, What Heaven Was Like.” Callaloo, vol. 23, no. 3, Aug. 2000, pp. 1017–19. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0142.
---. “She Made It.” Callaloo, vol. 23, no. 3, Aug. 2000, pp. 1021–22. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0144.
---. “Wake up and Smell.” Callaloo, vol. 23, no. 3, Aug. 2000, p. 1020. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0143.
---. “What She Made.” Callaloo, vol. 23, no. 3, Aug. 2000, pp. 1023–24. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2000.0144.
Mac Court, David, et al. Proactively Improve Library Experience by Focusing on Hospitality, Microskills, and Microaffections. 2017, https://works.bepress.com/isabel_espinal/7/.