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Exposing The Institutions That Mask Us, Christine Zuni Cruz
Exposing The Institutions That Mask Us, Christine Zuni Cruz
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I am going to stand in tribute to Professor Montoya and her family and to the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review, which brings us to this point where we are considering and celebrating Professor Montoyas Mascaras, Trenzas, Y Grenas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse, twenty years after its initial publication. Professor Montoya's article is timeless.
A Brief History Of Chicana/O School Segregation: One Rationale For Affirmative Action, Margaret E. Montoya
A Brief History Of Chicana/O School Segregation: One Rationale For Affirmative Action, Margaret E. Montoya
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This article uses Critical Race Theory methodologies, such as autobiographical narratives, and analytical approaches, such as revising the history of the civil rights struggle, especially as it applies to the Chicano-Latino communities. This paper represents a student-faculty collaboration in that the students organized the conference at which some of this analysis was first proposed. This was the conference at which now Justice Sonia Sotomayor made her now iconic comments about being a "wise Latina." People can't get to be judges without first going to law school, and Latinas/as can't get to law school, at least in significant numbers, without affirmative …