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Examines LatCrit's emergence as a scholarly and activist community
within and beyond the US legal academy Emerging from the US legal
academy in 1995, LatCrit theory is a genre of critical outsider
jurisprudence-a vital hub of contemporary scholarship that includes
Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory, among other
critical schools of legal knowledge. Its basic goals have been: (1)
to develop a critical, activist, and inter-disciplinary discourse
on law and society affecting Latinas/os/x, and (2) to foster both
the development of coalitional theory and practice as well as the
accessibility of this knowledge to agents of social and legal
transformative change. This slim volume tells the story of
LatCrit's growth and influence as a scholarly and activist
community. Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender offer a living
example of how critical outsider academics can organize long-term
collective action, both in law and society, that will help those
similarly inclined to better organize themselves. Part roadmap,
part historical record, and part a path forward, LatCrit: From
Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activismshows that with
coalition, collaboration, and community, social transformation can
take root.
Examines LatCrit's emergence as a scholarly and activist community
within and beyond the US legal academy Emerging from the US legal
academy in 1995, LatCrit theory is a genre of critical outsider
jurisprudence-a vital hub of contemporary scholarship that includes
Feminist Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory, among other
critical schools of legal knowledge. Its basic goals have been: (1)
to develop a critical, activist, and inter-disciplinary discourse
on law and society affecting Latinas/os/x, and (2) to foster both
the development of coalitional theory and practice as well as the
accessibility of this knowledge to agents of social and legal
transformative change. This slim volume tells the story of
LatCrit's growth and influence as a scholarly and activist
community. Francisco Valdes and Steven W. Bender offer a living
example of how critical outsider academics can organize long-term
collective action, both in law and society, that will help those
similarly inclined to better organize themselves. Part roadmap,
part historical record, and part a path forward, LatCrit: From
Critical Legal Theory to Academic Activismshows that with
coalition, collaboration, and community, social transformation can
take root.
Project estimation is important because it is the basis for the
allocation and management of the resources associated to a project,
when the estimation process is not performed properly, this leads
to higher risks and the organizations frequently end up with losses
instead of the expected profits. Usually in the project's early
phases there is high uncertainty and the information about the
project is vague, considering this issue, the existent estimations
models (parametric) are not easy to be used because they requires
quantitative information instead of subjective information and also
historic data. This situation makes that the estimation technique
more often used in software industry were "Expert Judgement." This
Book describes the EPCU model (Estimation of Projects in Contexts
of Uncertainty), this is an estimation process based on fuzzy logic
that aims to solve this problem taking the benefits of the "Expert
Judgement" in a formal way, without using quantitative historic
data. This new paradigm should be especially useful to all the
professionals in software development field or anyone else that
need to estimate under incomplete information environments.
Critical Justice equips students and teachers with a framework for
confronting systemic injustice by developing systemic advocacy
projects rooted in insights of the critical schools of legal
knowledge and field-based advocacy approaches. The textbook
describes both law's complicity in maintaining injustice and its
importance as a tool in struggles to advance equal justice. Drawing
on iconic and cutting-edge writings, the textbook outlines the
"Critical Challenge" for advocates: how to translate the noble
promise of equal justice into lived social realities for all-how to
use law for justice. The textbook prepares students to use law for
justice by developing systemic advocacy projects that overcome the
"blindfolds" and "handcuffs" of traditional legal education and
practice. Critical Justice's conceptual and practical toolkit
focuses on four key missing elements-social identities, groups,
interests, and power-to explain the persistence of systemic
injustice, and on redesigned professional norms to promote
collaboration with subordinated communities. The textbook defines
and illustrates systemic advocacy: systemic advocates craft
ameliorative fixes to discrete problems while also transforming the
playing field by building the organized power of subordinated
groups and shifting consciousness and culture to undermine
supremacist ideologies. Critical Justice also presents a template
for designing advocacy projects to help students craft fellowship
projects and pursue dream jobs. Critical Justice fills a gap in
racial and social justice curriculum that connects the dots among
systems and oppressions that persist across time and borders. With
all author proceeds going to an academic nonprofit with
antisubordination aims, this textbook is truly a collective
undertaking in praxis toward equal justice for all.
Its opponents call it part of \u0022the lunatic fringe,\u0022 a
justification for \u0022black separateness,\u0022 \u0022the most
embarrassing trend in American publishing.\u0022 \u0022It\u0022 is
Critical Race Theory. But what is Critical Race Theory? How did it
develop? Where does it stand now? Where should it go in the future?
In this volume, thirty-one CRT scholars present their views on the
ideas and methods of CRT, its role in academia and in the culture
at large, and its past, present, and future. Critical race
theorists assert that both the procedures and the substance of
American law are structured to maintain white privilege. The
neutrality and objectivity of the law are not just unattainable
ideals; they are harmful actions that obscure the law's role in
protecting white supremacy. This notion-so obvious to some, so
unthinkable to others-has stimulated and divided legal thinking in
this country and, increasingly, abroad. The essays in Crossroads,
Directions, and a New Critical Race Theory-all original-address
this notion in a variety of helpful and exciting ways. They use
analysis, personal experience, historical narrative, and many other
techniques to explain the importance of looking critically at how
race permeates our national consciousness.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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