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Matthew Patrick Keaney – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study explores how libraries mediated interactions between black readers and texts in twentieth century South Africa. By situating libraries as vital infrastructures of reading, I critically examine how librarians tried to build the habit of reading within black communities. Beginning in the 1930s with the Carnegie Corporation of New York's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Development, Library Services, Libraries