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Whose knowledge is allowed to count?

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  1. 11903Du Bois — Double consciousness and seeing oneself through others’ eyes

    W. E. B. Du Bois · The Souls of Black Folk

    Is seeing oneself through both one’s own and a dominant society’s eyes only a wound of division, or also an epistemic resource?

    Du Bois names double consciousness as the conflict of experiencing oneself through one’s own standpoint and the appraising gaze of a racist society.

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    • Double Consciousness

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §1 The Trajectory of the Concept; The Souls of Black Folk passage

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    Whether “second sight” automatically grants privileged insight into dominant society or primarily diagnoses self-alienation remains disputed in the text and its reception.

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    • Double Consciousness

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2 Double-Consciousness in The Souls of Black Folk; §4 Contemporary interpretations

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

      1903

  2. 21949Beauvoir — Embodied freedom made into “the Other”

    Simone de Beauvoir · The Second Sex

    If “woman” is shaped by social norms rather than natural fact alone, what does the lived standpoint add to knowledge?

    The Second Sex analyzes the history, myths, and lived experience through which man is cast as universal subject and woman as relative Other.

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    • Simone de Beauvoir

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §4 The Second Sex; woman as Other and lived experience

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    Beauvoir's claim that one becomes rather than is born a woman does not deny the body; it asks how embodiment is lived through situation and norms.

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    • Simone de Beauvoir

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §4.1–§4.3, biology, situation, and becoming woman

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

      1949 · Paris · 출판

  3. 31952Fanon — Racialized experience through language and the gaze

    Frantz Fanon · Black Skin, White Masks

    When a dominant language and others’ gaze alter the meaning of one’s body, can a neutral observer explain the experience fully?

    Black Skin, White Masks uses phenomenology and psychoanalysis to examine how colonial language, recognition, and the racist gaze organize bodily experience and self-relation.

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    • Frantz Fanon

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2 Black Skin, White Masks; language, recognition, and lived experience

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    Fanon resists simply applying universalized European psychoanalytic schemes to colonial subjects and includes the social-historical world producing individual symptoms.

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    • Frantz Fanon

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2, sociogeny and critique of universalized psychoanalysis

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

      1952

  4. 42007Fricker — Injustice through credibility deficits and missing interpretive resources

    Miranda Fricker · Epistemic Injustice

    Beyond one false belief, what capacities and participation are taken away when someone is not recognized as a knower?

    Testimonial injustice occurs when identity prejudice unfairly deflates a speaker's credibility and impairs their capacity to transmit knowledge.

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    • Epistemic Injustice

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §1 Testimonial Injustice

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    Hermeneutical injustice arises when structural gaps in collective interpretive resources obstruct understanding and communication of a social experience.

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    • Epistemic Injustice

      Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      Locator: §2 Hermeneutical Injustice

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

      2007