Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

These included la mission civilisatrice (the civilizing mission) in French colonialism and Manifest Destiny in North America—concepts central to knowledge production and political organization from before the Enlightenment right through the Modern period.

7 DISABILITY AND FAT STUDIES Support-Group Identity Theory

INTRODUCTION

2 POSTMODERNISM’S APPLIED TURN

1 POSTMODERNISM

6 FEMINISMS AND GENDER STUDIES

5 CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND INTERSECTIONALITY

The postmodern political principle: A belief that society is formed of systems of power and hierarchies, which decide what can be known and how.

“Privilege-preserving epistemic pushback is a variety of willful ignorance that dominant groups habitually deploy during conversations that are trying to make social injustices visible.