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8 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 303 (2009-2010)
Afterword: Change and Continuity: An Introduction to LatCrit Taskforce Recommendations

handle is hein.journals/sjsj8 and id is 319 raw text is: Afterword: Change and Continuity: An Introduction to the LatCrit Taskforce Recommendations Marc-Tizoc Gonzdilezi Yanira Reyes-Gil2 Belkys Torres3 Charles R. Venator-Santiago4 For the past thirteen years, the LatCrit community has gathered annually to produce knowledge and promote praxis focused on the transformation of subordinate society.5 In doing so, the LatCrit experiment in critical outsider jurisprudence is both ordinary and unique. Our efforts are ordinary in that many, if not most, genres of critical outsider jurisprudence focus their scholarly and activist efforts on the development of antisubordination knowledge and policy. However, our efforts are also unique in that the LatCrit community is the only community, among the various strands of critical outsider jurisprudence, to have managed continuity and consistency for thirteen straight years.6 In this afterword, we reflect on the ways that this history has helped us articulate recommendations for the future of this organization. Our aim is to extrapolate the critical lessons from this collective body of knowledge, which helped guide our thoughts when developing and practicing a critical internal review of our organization. We hope these considerations will be useful to scholars of all stripes in their continuing efforts to connect law with social justice. Of course, one immediate observation is that the LatCrit community has been committed to both community building and coalition building since its inception.7 For more than a century, racial and ethnic majorities exploited a monopoly over formal law and have been violently degrading, if not erasing, all consciousness of community or collective identity among

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