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Black, Kimberly

Kimberly Black is an Assistant Professor of Library and Information Studies at the University of Tennessee. She received her Ph.D. in Information Studies from Florida State University.

WHAT BOOKS BY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN WERE ACQUIRED BY AMERICAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES?
A Study of Institutional Legitimation, Exclusion, and Implicit Censorship

2009 0-7734-3792-4
This study examines the publication, review and collection of fiction and poetry titles written by African-American women, published between 1980-1990 by Association of Research Libraries member academic libraries located in the United States. It is an examination of institutionalized legitimizing social forces and their influence on the collection and sanctioning of knowledge as expressed through academic library collections.