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NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

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The Power of Naming in Critical Race Theory

Kimberly Crenshaw: I am black takes the socially imposed identity and empowers it as an anchor of subjectivity. This is a direct refutation of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which explicitly rejected positive discourse of self identification intimately linked to celebratory statements like the black nationalist black is beautiful. On the other hand achieves self identification by straining for a certain universality. In effect, I am first a person and for a concomitant dismissal of the category black as circumstantial determinant.

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