Racial Innocence
Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
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Tanya K. Hernández's Racial Innocence examines how Latino communities and institutions have often evaded responsibility for anti-Blackness, tracing legal and social patterns that perpetuate inequality.
The book explores how narratives of Latino racial innocence obscure complicity with anti-Black structures and examines cases and policies where Latino identity has been used to sidestep obligations to racial justice.
Hernández combines legal analysis, historical research, and social theory to show how anti-Black bias in Latino communities affects politics, law, and claims to civil rights.
By unmasking these dynamics, the work argues for more honest reckonings about race and for coalitional strategies that address anti-Blackness within Latino politics.
The book has been influential in discussions about race, law, and intra-minority relations in contemporary scholarship and public debates.
The book explores how narratives of Latino racial innocence obscure complicity with anti-Black structures and examines cases and policies where Latino identity has been used to sidestep obligations to racial justice.
Hernández combines legal analysis, historical research, and social theory to show how anti-Black bias in Latino communities affects politics, law, and claims to civil rights.
By unmasking these dynamics, the work argues for more honest reckonings about race and for coalitional strategies that address anti-Blackness within Latino politics.
The book has been influential in discussions about race, law, and intra-minority relations in contemporary scholarship and public debates.
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