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Book review

Alphabet of Oppression: Literacy Barriers and Social Injustice in ‘Andean Lives’

I didn’t get promoted in the army, not even to corporal, because I never got anywhere with the alphabet. I couldn’t pass my classes; they were only for the clever ones. I was always hoping to get promoted, and I’d often dream about being corporal and getting revenge, dammit, for all the times they’d beaten […]

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