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Randall Kennedy on Racism, Critical Race Theory, and the Need for (Chastened) Optimism

The Good Fight

CHAPTER

The Idea of Strategic Essentialism

I guess one concept that's a little bit in the same bull pockets at which about is the idea of strategic essentialism. And as an attempt to say, wile look, we should actually recognize that people have historically been discriminated against on the basis of these arbitrary racial and other athenic and sometimes social categories. We should actually try and encourage them to organize along those lines in order to fight back against bet injustice.

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