CONTENTS

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 POSTMODERNISM

A Revolution in Knowledge and Power

2 POSTMODERNISM’S APPLIED TURN

Making Oppression Real

3 POSTCOLONIAL THEORY

Deconstructing the West to Save the Other

4 QUEER THEORY

Freedom from the Normal

5 CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND INTERSECTIONALITY

Ending Racism by Seeing It Everywhere

6 FEMINISMS AND GENDER STUDIES

Simplification as Sophistication

7 DISABILITY AND FAT STUDIES

Support-Group Identity Theory

8 SOCIAL JUSTICE SCHOLARSHIP AND THOUGHT

The Truth According to Social Justice

9 SOCIAL JUSTICE IN ACTION

Theory Always Looks Good on Paper

10 AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE IDEOLOGY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

Liberalism Without Identity Politics

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