What is the Goal of Feminist and Critical Race Theory?
Critics of these movements accuse their proponents of contributing to what Robert Hughes calls the culture of complaint or the fraying of America. Even if this charge is somewhat unfair, it does raise the question of whether feminists and critical race theorists can imagine success for their cause. n Some feminists and critical theorists clearly believe that gender and race discrimination is ineradicable, perhaps even part of human nature n At the same time, some of the positive visions promoted by these scholars would seem to presuppose segregation, i.e. a separate but equal policy between radically different modes of being n ON the other hand, feminists and critical race theorists still attached to liberal and socialist politics continue to believe in a goal of formal equality under the law for all sexes and races.
