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When personal knowledge gets dismissed as unscholarly

My book about my community's history got published but now white academics are citing my lived experience as 'biased' while treating their theories as neutral.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Academic hierarchies position lived experience as subjective while treating detached analysis as objective truth.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.