Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2018
ISSN
1544-1245
Publisher
Seattle University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
In this multi-vocal Afterword, we reflect-personally and collectively to help chart renewed agendas toward and through a third decade of LatCrit theory, community, and praxis. This personal collective exercise illustrates and reconsiders the functions, guideposts, values, and postulates for our shared programmatic work a framework for our daily work as individuals and teams through our portfolio of projects, which in turn emerged as a "reflection and projection of LatCrit theory, community and praxis." These early anchors expressly encompassed (1) a call to recognize and accept the inevitable political nature of U.S. legal scholarship; (2) a concomitant call toward anti-subordination praxis to connect theory to action; (3) a commitment to build both intra-Latinx communities and inter-group coalitions; (4) a commitment to find commonalities while respecting difference; (5) a recognition of past critical outsider scholarship in new applications; (6) a commitment to ongoing self-critique, individually and collectively; and (7) a recognition of specificity and diversity in constructing LatCrit theory, praxis, and community. These early guiding commitments were rooted in substantive values, and accompanied by working postulates, that we likewise made explicit to help anchor our programmatic initiatives, and our mutual aspirations, over time and its exigencies.
Recommended Citation
Steven W. Bender, Francisco Valdes, Shelley Cavalieri, Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Saru Matambanadzo, Roberto Corrada, Jorge Roig, Tayyab Mahmud, Zsea Bowmani & Anthony E. Varona,
Afterword: What's Next? Into a Third Decade of LatCrit Theory, Community, and Praxis
,
in
16
Seattle Journal for Social Justice
823
(2018).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3661
Comments
A shorter version of this article also appeared in University of Miami Race and Social Justice Law Review v.9, 2019. Article attached as an additional file.