Critical race feminism fuses legal studies and race theory’s critiques of law

Evidence

Adrien Katherine Wing’s contribution is more tightly focused, and deals with the development of “critical race feminism.” This is a trend of thought that emerged particularly out of the traditions and critical interactions of critical legal studies, critical race theory, and feminist jurisprudence in the United States. Wing traces the development of critical race feminism from these influences. From critical legal studies it assumed the challenge to common assumptions within the dominating paradigm of liberal legalism that law is objective, neutral (regarding class, race, or gender), and therefore fair, and that proper application of law will produce determinate and fixed outcomes. From critical race theory, critical race feminism adopted the conception that race is invented and elaborated in good part through and by the law. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 648

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines critical race feminism by its twin intellectual inheritances: anti-neutrality from critical legal studies, law-as-race-constructor from critical race theory.
• XREF: Connects to vault-wide CRT origin claims (Omi & Winant, racialization) and to ‘race is invented through law’ claims used for the law-and-racial-formation literature. — connects to: Critical race feminist praxis spans activism, law reform, and direct policy advising — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1159; Critical Race Feminism extends race analysis beyond the United States — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1164
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 648