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Now the most populous minority group in the United States,
Latino/as increasingly need guidance on the everyday issues that
affect their economic livelihood, their freedom, and their equal
rights to dignity and opportunity. This comprehensive guide is
organized around the three flashpoints that contribute to the
unique legal treatment of Latino/as--immigration status, language
regulation, and racial/ethnic discrimination. These points are
examined in the venues of everyday life for Latino/as--from
discrimination in housing to discrimination and language regulation
in the workplace, to the lack of protection for immigrant labor, to
classrooms where the bilingual education debate rages, to the
voting booth and the criminal justice system where Latino/as
confront racial profiling and language barriers.
Now the most populous minority group in the United States,
Latino/as increasingly need guidance on the everyday issues that
affect their economic livelihood, their freedom, and their equal
rights to dignity and opportunity. This comprehensive guide is
organized around the three flashpoints that contribute to the
unique legal treatment of Latino/as--immigration status, language
regulation, and racial/ethnic discrimination. These points are
examined in the venues of everyday life for Latino/as--from
discrimination in housing to discrimination and language regulation
in the workplace, to the lack of protection for immigrant labor, to
classrooms where the bilingual education debate rages, to the
voting booth and the criminal justice system where Latino/as
confront racial profiling and language barriers.
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.
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