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

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The Marxian Conflict Theory

The postmodernist view is that social categories like race and sex are socially constructed. But this doesn't mean they have no meaning, says the author of a new book on identity Marxism. The project's most pressing problem in many cases is not the existence of the categories but rather the particular values attached to them as those values foster and create social hierarchies.

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