Sublime

Helena Hansen, a psychiatrist and an anthropologist at UCLA who studies racial stereotypes in medicine, told me, “It is woven into the fabric of this country that Black women’s role is to do the work, to do the suffering, so why would we—the mainstream mental-health field—be chasing them down and asking, ‘Can I treat you for your sadness?’”

That studies have found correlations between mental illness and being female, single, urban-dwelling, and college-educated was frequently used as a knock against feminist ideology. Mirroring progressive arguments against the right, claiming “they’re all crazy!” was and remains a convenient way to dismiss an entire school of thought.

for one’s children.” Norton provided no empirical evidence to substantiate her position that certain “ghetto” Blacks were deficient in any of these values.

Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named, feroci

6 FEMINISMS AND GENDER STUDIES

Oublions Marlon Brando et son numéro raté de Panthère Noire. Ce qu'il importe de dire, c'est qu'il y a parmi les Blancs des inadaptés psychologiques, des misfits, qui utilisent la tragédie et la revendication des Afro-Américains afin de transférer leur névrose personnelle hors du domaine psychique, sur un terrain social qui la légitime. Ceux qui ca

Another, explicitly anti-liberal, anti-universal, approach to achieving social justice has also been employed, particularly since the middle of the twentieth century, and that is one rooted in critical theory. A critical theory is chiefly concerned with revealing hidden biases and underexamined assumptions, usually by pointing out what have been te