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“The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, "We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were institutionally created and guaranteed along with it." ... as Braman rightly notes, those who live in the shadows of this silence are devalued…” quote by Michelle Alexander — Download Open image

““The historical anthropologist Gerald Sider once wrote, "We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were institutionally created and guaranteed along with it." ... as Braman rightly notes, those who live in the shadows of this silence are devalued as human beings.””

Michelle Alexander

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