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CHAPTER NINETEEN Outsider Scholars, Critical Race Theory, and "OutCrit" Perspectivity: Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method Francisco Valdes THIS CHAPTER considers the relationship of Critical Race Theoryl to the concept and potential of postsubordination vision as jurisprudential method. But as presented later, postsubordination is both a means and an end. It also comprises both method and content, for it describes the project of articulating and producing the sociolegal conditions necessary to the attainment of substantive security by outsider communities. By "substantive security" I mean specifically outgroup attainment of safe, secure, and continuous access to the basic rights, goods, and services that are substantially necessary to human well-being. More doctrinally , and perhaps somewhat simply, I mean by "substantive security" the overall state of affairs that is possible only after outgroups qua outgroups finally accrue and enjoy the "three generations" of civil and political, economic, social and cultural, and group rights that international covenants already recognize and promise to us alP Postsubordination ViSlOn grounded in substantive security thus conjures a time and place wherein people ofcolor, women, sexual minorities, and other traditionally subordinated groups no longer are the targets of social disdain, hate crime, and backlash democracy.3 It imagines a society wherein these traditionally marginalized populations are well represented in popular culture, Congress , and the corridors of the corporate world. It describes a nation ofpeaceably and multiply diverse playgrounds, schools, workplaces , neighborhoods, and governments. It demands the restructuring of social, legal, and economic conditions to eradicate the systematic imposition of poverty, violence, and exploitation based on racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, and similar ideologies of prejudice and repression. By offering postsubordination vision as jurisprudential method this chapter also strives to recast extant sameness and difference questions as relevant, but not threshold 400 OUTSIDER SCHOLARS, CRT, AND "OUTCRIT" PERSPECTIVITY or conclusive, determinants of the possibility for critical coalitions as vehicles ofsocial justice and substantive security. By "critical coalitions" I mean "alliances based on a thoughtful and reciprocal interest in the goals or purpose(s) of a collaborative and collective project."4 Critical coalitions signify intergroup collaborations grounded explicitly and substantively in joint convictions and mutual commitments rather than in the happenstance of coinciding self-interest. Critical coalitions therefore stand in sharp contrast to the convergence ofWhite-Black group interests that produced yesteryears' civil-rights triumphs.s Though this chapter obviously is only one step in the longer and larger journey of CRT's second decade toward a postsubordination society, these words aim to make it more likely that our coming work will bring multiply diverse OutCrit scholars closer to a progressive postsubordination era marked by substantive social justice for alL By "OutCrit" I mean "those scholars that identify and align themselves with outgroups in this country, as well as globally."6 Therefore, among them are the legal scholars who in recent times have launched CRT, feminist, queer, and LatCrit legal discourses, including critical race feminists and Asian American and Native American scholars. But this OutCrit denomination also is a conscious effort to conceptualize and operationalize a mutual and proactive interconnection of the social-justice analyses and struggles of varied and overlapping-yet "different"-subordinated groups in the United States and globally. My hope and purpose are that a broader identification among outsider and progressive legal scholars as "OutCrits" will enhance our collective and individual understanding of the needs and goals that must underpin critical exchanges and collaborative projects among and between people ofcolor, sexual minorities , women, and other outgroups. Ideally, this chapter's framing and focus around postsubordination vision, substantive security , and critical coalitions will help promote a culture of antisubordination community, convocation, and collaboration among multiply diverse OutCrit legal theorists as a form of praxis. Postsubordination Vision as Jurisprudential Method: Identities, Ideals, and Ideas The cumulative experience and record of outsider jurisprudence illustrates how CRT, feminist, queer, and LatCrit experiments in critical legal theory converge and diverge in numerous significant ways, both substantively and structurally.? In different ways and to different degrees, these outsider discourses strive similarly to represent certain marginalized viewpoints; espouse critical, egalitarian, progressive, diverse antisubordination projects; accept discursive subjectivity , political consciousness, and social responsibility; recognize postmodernism; favor praxis; and seek community.s In addition , these outsider discourses have imagined and alluded to, but have not explicitly described, their vision of a postsubordination order to orient our collective antisubordination work.9 The rhetorics and ambitions of outsider scholars indicate that we are striving collectively toward a sociolegal alternative to the Euroheteropatriarchal status quo,lO which by definition must entail some...

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