First LatCrit Joint Symposium

Proceedings from Fist Joint Symposium published in: LatCrit Theory: Latinas/os and the Law, 10 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 1 (1998).

LatCrit Theory: Latinas/os and the Law

Foreword

Francisco Valdes, Under Construction – LatCrit Consciousness, Community, and Theory

Race, Ethnicity & Nationhood

Ian F. Haney Lopez, Race, Ethnicity, Erasure: The Salience of Race to LatCrit Theory

Juan F. Perea, The Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race: The “Normal Science” of American Racial Thought

Kevin R. Johnson, “Melting Pot” or “Ring of Fire”?: Assimilation and the Mexican-American Experience

Policy, Politics & Praxis

Rachel F. Moran, What if Latinos Really Mattered in the Public Policy Debate?

Christopher David Ruiz Cameron, How the Garcia Cousins Lost Their Accents: Understanding the Language of Title VII Decisions Approving English-Only Rules as the Product of Racial Dualism, Latino Invisibility, and Legal Indeterminacy

Robert S. Chang & Keith Aoki, Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination

Daria Roithmayr, Deconstructing the Distinction Between Bias and Merit

Jean Stefancic, Latino And Latina Critical Theory: An Annotated Bibliography

Afterword

Leslie Espinoza and Angela P. Harris, Embracing the Tar-Baby – LatCrit Theory and the Sticky Mess of Race

Book Review

Anthony V. Alfieri, Black And White