Abstract
A foreword to a special journal issue offering a collection of papers originally presented at the LatCrit III symposium held in May 1998 in Miami Beach, FL, hails the LatCrit movement as both a collective program of scholarship & a political intellectual project designed to advance knowledge on the Latino/a community, focusing on issues of identity, law, & policy. Essays are grouped into three main topics: (1) identity politics, including intragroup identity, intergroup solidarity, legal structures of subordination, racial hierarchies, & internal & external dynamics of oppression; (2) self-determination, including citizenship & language rights in democracies, communicative power, & class structures & workers' rights among Latinos in the global economy; & (3) the intellectual & political foundations of the LatCrit movement & some future directions for theory & practice. K. Hyatt Stewart