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3 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 1 (1999)
The Validity of Latcrit: History, Race, and the Education of the Mexicano/Chicano Child

handle is hein.journals/hllr3 and id is 5 raw text is: The Validity of Latcrit: History, Race, and the Education of the Mexicano/Chicano Child* Ren6 Nifiez** The purpose of the first Annual LatCrit Conference was to form a regular scholarly venue for the discussion of social and legal issues especially germane to Latina/os. The major focus of the conference was to explore the feasibility of a LatCrit legal studies - that is, the study of a Latino Critical Race Theory that avoids the weaknesses of, as Francisco Valdes notes, an essentializing failure to elucidate the sometimes covert, always complex, but nonetheless fundamental interdependence of sexism, racism and homophobia in the construction and practice of social and legal subordination by, within and between various identity categories.' An integral part of the conference was to explore the possibility of a Latino pan-ethnicity in the endeavor to establish a LatCrit format. This part of the conference invited the participation of scholars from an interdisciplinary perspective. My task was to explore two areas addressed by the conference from a Mexicano/Chicano2 perspective: (1) the relevance of Latino Lecturer, Chicana/Chicano Studies Department San Diego State University. BA Spanish, UCLA; MA Political Science, UCSD; Ph.D. Multicultural Education, Claremont Graduate School/San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program. Francisco Valdes, Poised on the Cusp: LatCrit Theory, Outsider Jurisprudence and Latinalo SelfEmpowerment, 2 HARV. LATINO L. REV. 1, 5 (1997). 21 will use the terms Mexicano, Mexican, and Chicano interchangeably to refer to the Mexican-origin population in the U.S.; alternatively, I will specify Mexican national or Chicano native-born.