Why are some claims seen or heard as political claims, while others are not? Why are some people not seen or heard as political agents? This book takes up a range of cases-including those of Antigone, Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and the Black Lives Matter movement-to better understand who counts as a political actor, and how we understand political belonging and the contestation of exclusion. Excluded Within articulates whowe are by virtue of who we exclude, and what claims we cannot see, hear, or understand.