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Book

Racial innocence : unmasking Latino anti-Black bias and the struggle for equality

Call Number

  • 305.896 H558 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Boston : Beacon Press, [2022]

Physical Description

207 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

Our national conversations about racism appear oblivious to the fact that Latinos can be racists. Afro-Latinos and African Americans suffer from discrimination at the hands of some Latinos who claim that their racially mixed cultures immunize them from charges of racism. Hernández demonstrates that US racism is complex and multifaceted, and it is possible for a racial/ethnic group to experience discrimination while simultaneously being discriminatory. -- adapted from jacket

"Bringing to light stories of Latino anti-Black racism and how they matter for the societal pursuit of equality"--

Contents

  • What is Latino anti-Blackness?
  • "No juegues con niños de color extraño": Playing and learning in "White" Latino spaces
  • Working in the USA
  • "Oye Negro, you can't live here": Latino landlords in action
  • Physical violence: the criminal justice systems "Brown" versus Black dynamic
  • Latinos and the future of racial equality in the United States
  • Epilogue: On being an Afro-Latina interrogating Latino anti-Blackness.

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