Marginalized subjects must recover suppressed histories as a stage of identity politics

Evidence

In the course of the search for roots, one discovered not only where one came from; one began to speak the language of that which is home in the genuine sense, that other crucial moment which is the recovery of lost histories. The histories that have never been told about ourselves that we could not learn in schools, that were not in any books, and that we had to recover. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 227

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names ‘the recovery of lost histories’ as a distinct stage in the identity-politics sequence.
• XREF: The recovery of untold histories echoes Foucauldian subjugated knowledges, and likely parallels accounts of how Muslim and South Asian communities recover erased migration histories. — connects to: Counterstories do more than rebut dominant narratives; they humanize marginalized communities. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 469; the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”