Yes. Not explicitly but in effect, yes. Also, anti-racist goals were sexist. The argument is that when people spoke of 'women' they meant white women and when they spoke of 'blacks' they meant men. The unique problems of black women were getting missed.
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But Crenshaw advocated more minute identity politics & cultural constructivism based on postmodernist approaches & rejected universal liberalism from the start so her methodology was bad. Then people went nuts with it which was really inevitable given those premises.
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Do you have some book coming Helen? I would love to read about all this. I love reading a book on an issue rather than articles/comments on the web or newspaper.
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I did think of writing one in which I broke down the main forms of critical theory and explained where they came from and how they are affecting society & suggested ways to counter them but I don't think enough people will be interested enough in going that deeply into theory.
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I cannot say for others but I would be surely interested in reading a book about critical theory and postmodernism written by you for laymen.
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