Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-18-2025
Abstract
This article explores how the ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education codes the idealized information literate individual as White. It illuminates how White language supremacy is used in the Framework to code the idealized information literate individual as White. By articulating the use of White language supremacy in the Framework, this article suggests how to begin the process of deconstructing this White ideal and thus transforming the Framework from a tool of colonization and oppression into something that steps toward liberation.
Copyright Statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Reference Librarian on 18 June 2025, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2025.2515020
Publication Information
Tobiason, Anders. (2025). "Unpacking White Language Supremacy in the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education". The Reference Librarian, . https://doi.org/10.1080/02763877.2025.2515020