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Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.
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We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.
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When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.
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Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.
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Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers--strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
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You don't need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments.
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It’s not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
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Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can’t imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn’t also a way of controlling people.
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You don’t need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments.
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