Religious Rituals and LatCrit Theorizing

Authors

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

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Abstract

After the first annual LatCrit conference held at La Jolla, California, Professor Keith Aoki observed that "issues of religion and spirituality are submerged not far below the surface of emerging Latina/o Critical Theory." He proposed that LatCrits begin to "unbracket" religious affiliation and identity in the construction and representation of individual and group racial identities. Professor Aoki further posited that "[i]n a paradoxical way, religion simultaneously may be both more and less difficult to voluntarily discard than race, language or nationality as a constitutive element of one's individual and group identity.

Publication Title

Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review

Volume

19

First Page

417

Keywords

LatCrit, Religion, Spirituality

Recommended Citation

Margaret E. Montoya, Religious Rituals and LatCrit Theorizing, 19 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 417 (1998).
Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/law_facultyscholarship/49