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

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The Utility of Identity Politics

Crenshaw argues that gender identities have become obscured in anti-racist discourses just as race identities have been obscured in feminist discourses. Does this mean that we cannot talk about identity or instead that any discourse about identity has to acknowledge how our identities are constructed through the intersection of multiple dimensions, she asks. Crenshaw again if as this analysis asserts history and context determine the utility of identity politics how the how then do we understand identity politics today?

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