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This book offers a new theory of social insensitivity, a new kind of interactionism and contextualism, and a new account of solidarity and activism through the notion of chained agency.Its account of chained acts of resistance delineates a new version of the social connection model of shared responsibility and the notion of network solidarity.The book also offers a new study of iconic figures of resistance in Latina Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Rosa Parks.This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways-from listening to each other, learning from each other, and mutually enriching each other's perspectives. Medina's epistemology of resistance offers a contextualist theory of our complicity with epistemic injustices and a social connection model of shared responsibility for improving epistemic conditions of participation in social practices. Through the articulation of a new interactionism and polyphonic contextualism, the book develops a sustained argument about the role of the imagination in mediating social perceptions and interactions. It concludes that only through the cultivation of practices of resistance can we develop a social imagination that can help us become sensitive to the suffering of excluded and stigmatized subjects. Drawing on Feminist Standpoint Theory and Critical Race Theory, this book makes contributions to social epistemology and to recent discussions of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, epistemic responsibility, counter-performativity, and solidarity in the fight against racism and sexism.Readership: People interested in issues of social justice concerning race, sexuality, and women as well as people interested in the role of the social imagination and political ideologies in shaping people's sensibilities.