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The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

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The Critical Resistance Strategy for Disempowered Groups Is to Occupy and Defend a Politics of Social Location

She says that the most critical resistance strategy for disempowered groups is to occupy and defend a politics of social location rather than to vacate and destroy it. She conflates at least two separate but closely linked manifestations of power by conflating categorization with deconstruction, she writes. The former power facilitates the latter to the existence of categories being able to name the categories facilitates the ability to cause the categorization to have social and material consequences when it's imposed there are social material consequences.

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