Academic Mestizaje: Re/Producing Clinical Teaching and Re/Framing Wills as Latina Praxis

Authors

Margaret E. Montoya, University of New Mexico - School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Abstract

What follows is an analysis that draws connections between activist teaching and activist scholarship and posits that it is the activism, the focus on the needs of Latinas/as, that makes them community service. In Part I, I describe the community lawyering program, one of the clinical law options, available at the University of New Mexico School of Law. In Part Il, I undertake to re-frame the law of wills in order to make this end-of-life ritual more relevant to the lives of Latinas/os. I then I enact a LatCritique of academic discussions and Outsider discourses. I conclude by examining our roles as theorists and practitioners employing an anthropological model, LatCrits as "native infonnants" cum ethnographers.

Publication Title

Harvard Latino Law Review

Volume

2

First Page

349

Keywords

Bilingual, LatCrit, Community Lawyering, Latina/o

Recommended Citation

Margaret E. Montoya, Academic Mestizaje: Re/Producing Clinical Teaching and Re/Framing Wills as Latina Praxis, 2 Harvard Latino Law Review 349 (1997).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/100