[LM_NET] TARGET: Cataloging -- does Sears include "blacks" as a subject heading?

[Jennifer England <jengland@HERITAGEHALL.COM>]

A general cataloging question, particularly for primary level
Librarians/Library Media Specialists:

My Sears Manual is being used by another Librarian, so I can't look this up,
but, do your catalogs include "blacks" (lower case) as a subject heading?  I
just discovered that "blacks-fiction" had been assigned to a book by Donald
Crews, "Freight Train", and anyone who knows the book knows that there are
no people of any kind in the story.  Donald Crews himself just so happens to
be black, but I don't have any idea why his ethnicity would have been noted
in the catalog, particularly for this book. Do I have a somewhat racist
catalog?  I'm thinking the previous librarian (whose legacy gives me daily
headaches) could have been.  I know "Blacks" (uppercase) is regularly used
in some books, but I just haven't seen it a lot in primary-level books as
"African-American" is typically used instead. 

Any help would be appreciated!

 

Jennifer England

Lower School Librarian 
Heritage Hall School 
Oklahoma City, OK 
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