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The Proximate Ideological Origins of Critical Race Theory | James Lindsay

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I Am Black, I'm a Person Who Happens to Be Black

The process of categorizing is not unilateral. Subordinated people can and do participate, sometimes even subverting the naming process in empowering ways. I am black takes the socially imposed identity and empowers it as an anchor of subjectivity. At this point in history, 19 91, a strong case can be made that the most critical resistance strategy for disempowered groups is to occupy and defend politics of social location or intersectional new sensibility.

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