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“Within the Sound of Silence”

A Critical Examination of LGBQ Issues in National History Textbooks

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(Re)Constructing Memory: Textbooks, Identity, Nation, and State

Abstract

The Simon and Garfunkel classic, “The Sound of Silence,” criticizes silence that perpetuates oppression. Living amid familiar darkness, people struggle to hear others screaming for recognition. Social movements, some of which have used this song, have slowly changed the faces of oppression.

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Schmidt, S.J. (2016). “Within the Sound of Silence”. In: Williams, J.H., Bokhorst-Heng, W.D. (eds) (Re)Constructing Memory: Textbooks, Identity, Nation, and State. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-509-8_6

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