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Quotes from Interview with NPR — Nell Irvin Painter

born 1942 United States

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The whole point of defining races is mostly to put people down, and so those needs change over time.

Interview with NPR (2010)

The census keeps counting us by race for purposes of undoing racial harm in the past.

Interview with NPR (2010)

We still have slavery in the world today. and two of the areas pinpointed for slavery are Latin America, notably Brazil, and Eastern Asia.

Interview with NPR (2010)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nell Irvin Painter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.