"On Making Sense" juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and
Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is
acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression.
From James Baldwin's 1960s novel "Another Country" to Margaret
Cho's turn-of-the-century stand-up comedy, these works all exhibit
a preoccupation with intelligibility, or the labor of making sense
of oneself and of making sense to others. In their efforts to "make
sense," these writers and artists argue against merely being
accepted by society on society's terms, but articulate a desire to
confront epistemic injustice--an injustice that affects people in
their capacity as knowers and as communities worthy of being known.
The book speaks directly to critical developments in feminist and
queer studies, including the growing ambivalence to antirealist
theories of identity and knowledge. In so doing, it draws on
decolonial and realist theory to offer a new framework to
understand queer writers and artists of color as dynamic social
theorists.
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