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65Don’t Put Words in My Mouth: Self-appointed Speaking-for Is Testimonial Injustice Without PrejudiceSocial Epistemology 34 (3): 241-252. 2020.In this paper, I will characterize a phenomenon I call ‘self-appointed speaking-for’, and show how it constitutes a counter-example to Miranda Fricker’s definition of testimonial injustice (TI), expanding our understanding of the category. Self-appointed speaking-for occurs when one speaks on behalf of or in place of another individual or group without their authorization. It is the sort of phenomenon that occasions complaints like, ‘You put words in my mouth’; that happens when someone else ans…Read more
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37Out of the Binary and Beyond the Spectrum: Redefining and Reclaiming Native American RaceCritical Philosophy of Race 6 (2): 216-238. 2018.Race in the United States is most often talked about in terms of black and white, sometimes as a spectrum running from whiteness to blackness. Such a conception does not map onto actual racial structures in the United States and excludes Native Americans. This article will criticize this binary, detailing a theory of race in which colonialism and racism are prior to racial formation, following Patrick Wolfe and Michael Omi and Howard Winant. In assembling this theory, this article attempts to br…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Race |
Indigenous Philosophy of the Americas |
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