ONE
What Is Latino Anti-Blackness?
TWO
“No juegues con niños de color extraño”:
Playing and Learning in “White” Latino Spaces
THREE
Working in the USA
FOUR
“Oye Negro, You Can’t Live Here”:
Latino Landlords in Action
FIVE
Physical Violence:
The Criminal Justice System’s “Brown” versus Black Dynamic
SIX
Latinos and the Future of Racial Equality in the United States
EPILOGUE
On Being an Afro-Latina Interrogating Latino Anti-Blackness
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Tanya Kateri Hernandez is an internationally recognized comparative race law expert and a professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches anti-discrimination law, comparative employment discrimination, and critical race theory. A Fulbright scholar, Princeton and Rutgers fellow, and former scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, she specializes in comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law. Hernandez is the author of multiple books, including Multiracials and Civil Rights- Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination.
“Lucid case studies, diligent research, and the author’s
willingness to tackle controversial topics head-on distinguish this
distressing examination of racism’s insidious effects.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An important book that reveals the many ‘interwoven complexities’
of American racism.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Hernández’s critical investigation of a sensitive topic that is
often overlooked by many scholars of racism—and which is often
ignored by many Latino Studies scholars themselves—is much needed
and commendable.”
—Ethnic and Racial Studies
“Hernández has not only written a much-needed book for judges and
attorneys; she has also written a book for readers like me…
Hernández has written a book where people like me feel like whole
human beings rather than bifurcated versions of ourselves."
—Yalidy Matos, The American Prospect
“This is a revelatory book for those surprised by Latino leaders of
white supremacist groups, racist comments from Latino Los Angeles
City Council members or the colorism of In the Heights. It is
painful vindication for Black Latinos and African Americans who,
like me, experience Latino racism in their personal and
professional lives.”
—Ariana Curtis, Smithsonian Magazine
“A critical race theory tour de force for understanding Latino
anti-Black bias, from the most important Afro-Latina voice on civil
rights today.”
—Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the
insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all
might free ourselves from its predation. Tanya Katerí Hernández is
fearless and brilliant, and her work is exactly what we need in
this challenging times. And that final chapter! What fire!”
—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“Dr. Hernández is a brilliant scholar who provides critical
analyses of the complexities of race and anti-Black bias as it
operates throughout the Americas. Her insights are essential for
understanding our contemporary sociopolitical landscape.”
—Imani Perry, author of South to America: A Journey Below the
Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
“Tanya Hernández is one of the nation’s foremost scholars regarding
racial beliefs among Latin Americans, here and abroad. With nuance
and care, her latest book drags into the light the explosive and
critically important topic of Latino anti-Blackness.”
—Ian F. Haney López, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public
Law, University of California, Berkeley
“The racial fantasy is over! In this wonderful yet painful book,
Professor Hernández skillfully exposes Latinos’ anti-Blackness.
With an impressive command of sources, data, and cases, she
stitches together the thick story of racial exclusion,
maltreatment, and discrimination against Blacks by people who claim
to be racially mixed and ‘color-blind.’ Her book made a Black
Puerto Rican man like me cry and get angry (too many memories) but
also realize that airing our ‘dirty laundry’ is vital to fight this
unacknowledged racism. Bravo, Professor Hernández for daring to
address this taboo subject!”
—Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, author of Racism Without Racists:
Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the
United States
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