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

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The Importance of Race in Identity Politics

The dimension of racial domination that has been most vexing to African-Americans has not been the social categorization as such but the myriad ways in which those of us so defined have been systematically subordinated. She writes along these lines considered the Clarence Thomas and Nita Hill controversy during the senate hearings for the confirmation of Clarence Thomas to the supreme court Anita Hill and bringing allegations of sexual harassment against Thomas was rhetorically disempowered in part because she fell between the dominant interpretations of feminism and anti-racism. The dilemma could be described as the consequence of anti- Racism's essentializing blackness and feminism's essentializing womanhood but recognizing as much does not take us far enough, says

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