Critical America Theory, Left and Right
You can have a Critical Race Theory about race, a Critical Gender Theory about sex, even a Critical America Theory about America.
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Kimberlé Crenshaw
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What Woke Really Means
Even though it's a term without a stable meaning as it evolved, "Woke" is increasingly coming to mean something quite specific and precise.
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Maoism with American Characteristics
Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the concept isn't that hard to trace, and where it leads us is back to some of the worst regimes in history.
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Intersectionality Is American Maoism
It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with Kimberlé Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place.
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The True History of Intersectionality
Intersectionality is usually credited to Kim Crenshaw, who coined the term as well as "Critical Race Theory" in 1989. It has an older history, however.
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Five Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it.
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The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay continues his abridged reading of Kimberlé Crenshaw's famous (or infamous) paper, "Mapping the Margins," which appeared in the Stanford Law Review in 1991.
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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to "Mapping the Margins" and offers his commentary on the paper and its role as the birthplace (though not gestation) of the Woke movement and, as he and Helen Pluckrose named it in Cynical Theories, applied postmodernism.
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NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement
Critical Race Theorists like to claim that they have inherited and continue the noble legacy and justice work of the Civil Rights Movement, but this is an abject lie.
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