Critical race feminism is a race intervention against feminism’s essentializing of women

Evidence

Another jurisprudential tradition that CRF draws from is feminism. CRF constitutes a race intervention in feminist discourse, in that it necessarily embraces feminism’s emphasis on gender oppression within a system of patriarchy. But most CRF proponents have not joined the mainstream feminist movement. While reasons vary, in some cases the refusal to become associated is due to that movement’s essentialization of all women, which subsumes the variable experiences of women of color within the experience of white middle-class women (Crenshaw, 1989). Mainstream feminism has paid insufficient attention to the central role of white supremacy’s subordination of women of color, effectuated by both white men and women. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1161

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions CRF as defined by its dual intervention: race into feminism and gender into CRT.
• XREF: Echoes Crenshaw’s intersectionality claim already in the vault on how mainstream feminism subsumes women of color under white middle-class experience. — connects to: Critical Race Feminism centers women of color facing simultaneous race and gender oppression — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1145; Analogizing racism and sexism erases the specific experience of women of color — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1472; Feminist politics must resist both white supremacy and patriarchy simultaneously — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 363

Broader Connections

• Analogizing racism and sexism erases the specific experience of women of color #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1472
• Feminist politics must resist both white supremacy and patriarchy simultaneously #expands (0.75) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 363