Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: LatCrit, as I understand it, stands in a great tradition.With American Legal Realism, it shares the focus on the empirical rather than the normative.Transcending, however, the Realist emphasis on analysis, and harnessing the sensitivities of the outsider, the LatCrit movement has formed around a powerful policy objective: the goal of overcoming structures of oppression and patterns of injustice encountered by Latinas/os in the United States and beyond.LatCrit theory is, as Frank Valdes has explained, "embryonic."' It attempts to produce critical knowledge, create material social change, and build coalitions as well as scholarly community.Beyond those activities, LatCrit is "a project perpetually under construction, but one whose construction . . .seems consciously guided by a progressive, inclusive and self-critical theory about the purpose and experience of theory." 2 As a postmodern theory, LatCrit focuses on education, 3 illuminating the limitations of an exclusively rights-based approach to resolving problems of group-wide oppression and discrimination.4 As a
Source: bepress Legal Repository
Author: Siegfried Wiessner
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1479064957