Foreword: Under Construction. LatCrit Consciousness, Community, and Theory

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Western School of Law. Thanks go to Bob Salinas and to the 1996-97 editorial boards of the California Law Review and La Raza Law Journal, who proposed and approved this first-ever symposium. Thanks also go to the 1997-98 boards of these two journals for their caring work on this project, and especially to Joseph Hahn for his tireless and crucial efforts. Special thanks go to David Oakland and Sherri Sokeland for crucial attention both to detail and to vision. Thanks additionally go to the symposium contributors, and to all LatCrit scholars, whose endeavors are helping to bring Latina/o concerns to the fore of legal and social discourse. Finally, personal thanks go to Tony

Quantitative Intersectionality: A Critical Race Analysis of the Chicana/o Educational Pipeline

“…1 Coined by Kimberly Crenshaw (1989), intersectionality refers to the ways in which interconnected systems of domination based on race, class, gender, sexuality, and other social constructions simultaneously impact the lives of all people as they engage in socially mediated relationships and in their interaction with society and its institutions (Crenshaw, 1989(Crenshaw, , 1991. It seeks to move beyond singularly defined sociological theories that reduce our experiences as influenced by narrow and essentialist definitions of the self (Valdes, 1995(Valdes, , 1997. Intersectionality similarly challenges the notion that we live in a postcolonialist society in which these socially constructed divisions no longer impact or are impacted by power.…”

Institutional Racism in Cultural Production: The Case of Public Relations

“…Originating in the United States, the largest body of work using CRT principles has focused on Black-White relations in the North American context, although some scholars have applied the theory to Latino/a communities (Valdes, 1997). It has also been used to understand discrimination in the UK education system (Gilborn, 2008).…”

Critical Race Theory

“…The work in this tradition has come to treat race as only one axis of a multidimensional system of status oppression (Hutchinson, 1997), and, drawing on an early article by Crenshaw, much of it goes under the label of 'intersectionality' (see Crenshaw, 1989a). The LatCrit offshoot of critical race theory has devoted itself explicitly to intersectionality, exploring the interplays of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, class, and sexuality (Valdes, 1998). More recently, critical race scholarship has explored the relationship between race and class (Jones, 2009).…”