We are all implicated in the systems we inhabit, even as we ... - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

"We are all implicated in the systems we inhabit, even as we resist them."

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Freedom

Scholar, Postcolonial Theorist Indian-American Born 1942 (age 84)

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