Definition of "misrecognized" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of misrecognize. (verb)

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• "E. B. Dubois wrote of being made 'speechless' by the 'ridicule and systematic humiliation' of Black people in nineteenth-century America, Martin Luther King evoked him again in the 1960s, and recently feminist intellectuals like Patricia Hill Collins have written much about the necessarily collective emotional and political struggle of 'self-valuation' in a society where you are misrecognized, excluded and despised."
• "One day, I was studying in a park in central Tehran and when I decided to pray my close friends felt so embarrassed by my actions that they moved away from me, so as not to be misrecognized."
• "Unfortunately, this can have a hidden oppressive cost. all trans people have spent parts or all of our lives grossly misdefined, mislabeled, misrecognized. we are an especially sensitive lot to the violence of defining."