audiobook What Is an American Muslim?: Embracing Faith and Citizenship by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im in History

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This book explores the epistemic side of oppression; focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways--from listening to each other; learning from each other; and mutually enriching each other's perspectives. Medina's epistemology of resistance offers a contextualist theory of our complicity with epistemic injustices and a social connection model of shared responsibility for improving epistemic conditions of participation in social practices. Through the articulation of a new interactionism and polyphonic contextualism; the book develops a sustained argument about the role of the imagination in mediating social perceptions and interactions. It concludes that only through the cultivation of practices of resistance can we develop a social imagination that can help us become sensitive to the suffering of excluded and stigmatized subjects. Drawing on Feminist Standpoint Theory and Critical Race Theory; this book makes contributions to social epistemology and to recent discussions of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice; epistemic responsibility; counter-performativity; and solidarity in the fight against racism and sexism.