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Not doing the work

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Institutions regarding ‘decolonisation of curriculum’ as a box-ticking exercise, and this is all delivered and created by white academics

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taking current state of affairs as normal, expected and accepted

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Vocational awe! Librarians are "the good guys", surely we can't be perpetuating harm?! (/Sarcasm)

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The lack of empirical studies with different races and educational systems to showcase their inappropriateness. We need more research to make IL models and frameworks more diverse with evidence.

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Barriers to global majority colleagues entering the profession and being involved in the conversation to enable IL to include different epistemologies

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No reason to change practice - no comeback

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An assumption that we're already the all good.

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The overwhelming whiteness of academic writing and existing academic structures.

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More HE librarians publish and of those librarians who are black do more work in public libraries?

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Worried I’ll get everything wrong and offend people

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Paywalls / access to information

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White library professionals simply need to do better: research, contribute, engage with these issues

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Fragility and ignorance

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Vicious circle - if IL professionals are predominantly white, it’s less welcoming for people of colour

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Frameworks developed in US and UK rather than global south

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Reliance on existing structures

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FEAR

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Denial

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Assumption that racism is a generational issue that will simply "die out"

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Libraries staffed mainly by white librarians

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A lack of meaningful investment in supporting Black and African-American librarians.

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Bias towards research from predominantly white countries. Suggestions of inferior quality

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Majority of academics are older and white in the he institutions

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Not being an expert in what you are talking about / not being the authority to discuss it

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We only know what we were taught at library school and havent researched further

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Collection development that does deliberately include small presses, diverse viewpoints or authors

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Not knowing how to bring it up

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Discomfort

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Discomfort, fragility of white people

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Demographics of librarian profession

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Lack of awareness and education on the issue.

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Lack of diverse perspectives and experiences

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Overwhelmingly white authorship

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Lack of diversity in the curriculum

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Government policy and political discourse/media

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Fear of getting it wrong

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Trump