Volume 23, Issue 1, 2010
Alyssa DeBlasio
Pages 160-172
Recent Trends in Alternative Epistemologies
The article addresses recent developments in alternative, or social, knowledge theories, including feminist, black, black feminist and queer epistemologies. Upon surveying the primary claims of these perspectives, we see that they have in common three main (and ultimately, interconnected) concerns: 1) the problem of experience and the myth of the objective knowledge claim; 2) language and the act of naming; and 3) the organization of educational institutions according to an unquestioned white-straight-male
intellectual hegemony.