“I said that it was amazing to me that a group of anthropologists wouldn’t recognize the biases that they were perpetuating themselves. She laughed at me: “Of course they recognize them! But they wanted to perpetuate them.” “Why?” “Because it solidified their positions of power.”

“I said that it was amazing to me that a group of anthropologists wouldn’t recognize the biases that they were perpetuating themselves. She laughed at me: “Of course they recognize them! But they wanted to perpetuate them.” “Why?” “Because it solidified their positions of power.”

— Becky Cooper