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

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The Hegelian Dialectic on Postmodernism

Kimberly Crenshaw: Postmodernism presents a social construction thesis. I'm about to hit it with its antithesis that we can create a synthesis called intersectionality, she says. She now accuses the Supreme Court of oozing "vulgar constructionist smugness" Graham: This is ultimately a Hegelian religion in the vein of the so-called young Hegelians. In Metro Broadcasting Inc. versus FCC, the court conservatives and rhetoric ... oozes vulgar constructionist smugty.

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