Humanidade

Hilda Rix Nicholas, African Slave Woman (1914, Art Gallery of New South Wales , Sydney)

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«But it is just as necessary to emphasize that identity is also singular, something that we experience as a complete whole. A person’s identity is not an assemblage of separate affiliations, nor a kind of loose patchwork; it is like a pattern drawn on a tightly stretched parchment. Touch just one part of it, just one allegiance, and the whole person will react, the whole drum will sound».

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Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong, 1996.