Forgetting to remember

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  • Published 20150505
  • ISBN: 9781922182807
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Learning to remember means…transforming individual memories and struggles into collective narratives and larger social movements.
Henry A Giroux, The Violence of Organized Forgetting, (City Light Books, 2014)

WHEN I WAS a little girl, I began poking and prodding the world with an infernal curiosity for historical detail:

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