Mapping a Materialist Latcrit Discourse on Racism

Authors

Reginald C. Oh, Appalachian School of Law

Abstract

This Essay will analyze the call for a return to a discourse on the material reality of racism, and offer two ways to develop a materialist LatCrit and Critical Race critique of dominant, inequality reinforcing legal narratives: by (1) critically analyzing the narrative structure of dominant legal narratives, and by (2) incorporating a critical geographical consciousness into LatCrit and Critical Race critique and discourse. This Essay contends that any critical discourse must explicitly recognize the multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-causal reality of racism and racial subordination, and it must expose dominant legal narratives for obscuring and obfuscating that reality.

Comments

Symposium: Eighth Annual LatCrit Conference City & The Citizen: Operations of Power, Strategies of Resistance: Section III: Identity, Discourse & Society: Mapping the Lines of Critical Inquiry

Recommended Citation

Reginald C. Oh, Mapping a Materialist Latcrit Discourse on Racism , 52 Clev. St. L. Rev. 243 (2005)
available at https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clevstlrev/vol52/iss1/16