“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 . . . What fire!”—Junot Díaz
The first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural background
Racial Innocence will challenge what you thought about racism and bias and demonstrate that it’s possible for a historically marginalized group to experience discrimination and also be discriminatory. Racism is deeply complex, and law professor and comparative race relations expert Tanya Katerí Hernández exposes “the Latino racial innocence cloak” that often veils Latino complicity in racism. As Latinos are the second-largest ethnic group in the US, this revelation is critical to dismantling systemic racism. Basing her work on interviews, discrimination case files, and civil rights law, Hernández reveals Latino anti-Black bias in the workplace, the housing market, schools, places of recreation, the criminal justice system, and Latino families.
By focusing on racism perpetrated by communities outside those of White non-Latino people, Racial Innocence brings to light the many Afro-Latino and African American victims of anti-Blackness at the hands of other people of color. Through exploring the interwoven fabric of discrimination and examining the cause of these issues, we can begin to move toward a more egalitarian society.
About the Author
Tanya Katerí Hernández ocupa la cátedra Archibald R. Murray de Derecho de la Escuela de Derecho de la Universidad de Fordham. Es autora de varios libros, entre ellos: La subordinación racial en Latinoamérica: El papel del Estado, el derecho consuetudinario y la nueva respuesta de los derechos civiles y Mutiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination (Las personas multirraciales y los derechos civiles: historias mestizas de discrimen).
Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and the author of multiple books, including Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response and Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination.
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