Unmasking Epistemic Ignorance and Injustice: A Critical Analysis of Knowledge, Power, and White Male Supremacy

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This book explores how non-knowing manifests in various forms of epistemic oppression- testimonial, hermeneutical, and narratival injustices- or as "epistemicide" which obliterates a given knowledge community's ability to generate, contribute, and disseminate knowledge. The author also traces as aspect of white male supremacy- specifically an epistemology of ignorance- through social structures like language, science, religion, and legislation.

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Ryan Holmes holds a Doctorate in Liberal Studies from Southern Methodist University.