Crossing knowledge: critical notes for an intersectional and equitable library science

Abstract

This study seeks to present the intersectionality to the field of Library Science from the African-American intellectual Patrícia Hill Collins and reflect on how this critical social theory and analytical tool can dialogue with the library science field, enabling this field to develop more critical views in relation to the world social, since in different historical contexts, theorists in the area have pointed out the presence of the ideology of the dominant class in the constitution and maintenance of a single knowledge, influencing the actions of librarians, forging a conservative and exclusionary action, especially in libraries, which affects and influences in the relationships between this space, this professional and society. As a methodology, it is a basic, exploratory and a qualitative study. From the results presented, it is clear that the political positioning of the authors highlighted in this text reinforced the need to build an agenda based on human rights, social, racial, gender and epistemic justice, aiming to minimize the damage caused by power relations and class struggle and which is still reproduced by the librarian class in their spaces of activityit. It is necessary to establish an intersectional Brazilian Library Science (theory and practice), which acts closely aligned with the social and political demands present in the social context, highlighting new knowledge and knowledge, in search of equity and social justice.