Elizabeth McHenry, To Make Negro Literature. Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship

Birth of modern facts: How the information revolution transformed academic research, governments, and businesses, Cortada, James W., Rowman & Littlefield. 2023. 462 pp. $125.00 (hardcover). (ISBN: 978‐1‐5381‐7390‐9).

“…Nevertheless, people found ways to create, use, and shape information that in turn shaped them. Those outside the white mainstream generated and used their own "funds of knowledge" (Gonz alez et al, 2005), Indigenous data (Rainie & Walker, 2019), knowledge organization systems (Helton, 2019), and reading, writing, speeches, and publications (McHenry, 2002(McHenry, , 2021, thereby creating institutions and infrastructures that transformed information and access to it. My point is not that Cortada should have written the book I wanted to read, which is an unfair way to review any book, but that even a brief account of the ways in which information access functioned in the context of structural racism might have made his argument about information's ubiquity and impact stronger and even more complex.…”