Marginalized people see their country more clearly than the dominant group can

Evidence

Once in a while through all of us there flashes some clairvoyance, some clear idea, of what America really is. We who are dark can see America in a way that white America cannot. And seeing our country thus, are we satisfied with its present goals and ideals? (W. E. B. Du Bois, 1995:509) Artists and writers are currently involved in the redefinition of our continental topography. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2466

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Du Bois’s double consciousness and feminist standpoint theory already in the reader’s knowledge base. — connects to: Oppressed persons first grasp their shared condition as being looked at from outside.