Latcrit Theory

The methodology that use LatCrit to achieve its goal is narrative: “One of the goals of CRT and LatCrit has been to challenge and add context to racialized histories. This particular CRT/LatCrit intervention has often been achieved through narrative methodology.” (Barnes, 2011) In this way the stories of several circumstances of discrimination can be understand from the perspective of Latina/o people. In addition to this, what is interesting is that LatCrit Scholars are more open to new ways of expressing research, such as drama and image (Johnson, 2004).
Despite the fact that LatCrit is a theoretical creation to be applied in United States, there is efforts to internationalized the term connecting it with international law, in particular with the theories of Human Rights Law: “Its goal is to elucidate the way that human rights norms can inform the LatCritical project of non-essentialism and antisubordination with its aim, common to the human rights system, to liberate the human spirit. LatCrit theory, like human rights law, explores the boundaries of law and related disciplines with …show more content…
And this can happen if we think in the connection between Latino perspective and indigenous way of living and human rights and dignity of all people. Furthermore, Schutte (2002) states two powerful question regarding the topic “my first question is: insofar as neither Latinas/os in the United States nor indigenous peoples in the various countries of this hemisphere constitute the dominant voices of power in any state, to what extent are our concerns either similar or different in kind? On what basis might there be cooperation between