Institutions can erase oral history by insisting only on written archives

Evidence

At this moment, I wanted to get up and scream. They were gaslighting not only me but in fact the whole world, since the conference was being broadcast globally. They had evidence that Renty does have an oral history: there had been newspaper articles about it. Why were they pretending otherwise? Again, rendering me mute as Agassiz did to Renty. This was dishonest and disingenuous on a new level! — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 615