Legal reasoning about discrimination merely validates popular misconceptions

Evidence

While not disputing that social scientists might learn from legal reasoning about the nature of discrimination, Miles (1993:5-6) has insisted that the law only validates popular misconceptions. He contends that academic analysis should develop its own vocabulary starting from the concept of racism. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 680

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Commonsense racist assumptions make legal complicity in subordination seem logical — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368; Law and courts are commonly misunderstood through two half-true misconceptions. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 181