Gerald Sider > Quotes

“We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silenced that were institutionally created and guaranteed along with it.”
― Gerald Sider

“Culture' is, in sum, at an historical turning point. Emerging in the late nineteenth century as an abstract analytical and political concept, explicitly associated with concepts of inequality, and still now a useful component in the production and reproduction of state power, it seems to be increasingly shaken loose from its rootedness in the state, as difference comes to be directly produced by the policies and practices of state, without invoking culture.”
― Gerald Sider, Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina