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Maoism with American Characteristics

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The Importance of Intersectionality in Civil Rights

Intersectionality was first described by this cumbersome term in a paper by Crenshaw in 1989. She likened the idea of occupying more than one position of socio-cultural systemic oppression to being caught in an intersection of highways. To be a black woman is also to face prejudice and discrimination, she said.

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