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Whose knowledge is allowed to count?

Use identity-discounted testimony, an experience without shared concepts, and an exclusionary expert community to examine credibility, language, standpoint, and power.

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  1. 1903

    The Souls of Black Folk records the inner division of racialized life as a social and epistemic problem.

    Du Bois — Double consciousness and seeing oneself through others’ eyes

  2. 1949

    Published in Paris, The Second Sex relocates the knowing subject in embodiment and situation.

    Beauvoir — Embodied freedom made into “the Other”

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  3. 1952

    Black Skin, White Masks analyzes colonialism not only as an institution but as an epistemic structure inscribed in body and language.

    Fanon — Racialized experience through language and the gaze

  4. 2007

    Epistemic Injustice formulates inequalities of credibility and interpretation as distinct wrongs in the ethics of knowing.

    Fricker — Injustice through credibility deficits and missing interpretive resources