Academic Mestizaje: Re/Producing Clinical Teaching and Re/Framing Wills as Latina Praxis

What follows is an analysis that draws connections between activist teaching and activist scholarship and posits that it is the activism, the focus on the needs of Latinas/as, that makes them community service. In Part I I describe the community lawyering program, one of the clinical law options, available at the University of New Mexico School of Law. In Part Il I undertake to re-frame the law of wills in order to make this end-of-life ritual more relevant to the lives of Latinas/os. I Then I enact a LatCritique of academic discussions and Outsider discourses. I conclude by examining our roles as theorists and practitioners employing an anthropological model, LatCrits as "native infonnants" cum ethnographers