Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

By Tanya Katerí Hernández

Book Overview

"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 Kater? Hern?ndez is fearless and brilliant . . . What fire!"--Junot D?az

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 Kater? Hern?ndez 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, Hern?ndez 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807012742
• ISBN13: 9780807012741
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"