Racial Subordination in Latin America
Tanya Katerí Hernández
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Description for Racial Subordination in Latin America
Paperback. This book examines customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Num Pages: 258 pages, 2 maps 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KL; JFSL1; LNDA; LNDC; LNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 35.
There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of US-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the ... Read more
There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of US-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107695436
SKU
V9781107695436
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About Tanya Katerí Hernández
Tanya Katerí Hernández is a Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches comparative employment discrimination, critical race theory, and trusts and estates. She received her AB from Brown University and her JD from Yale Law School, where she served as Note Topics Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Professor Hernández has been awarded a Non-Resident ... Read more
Reviews for Racial Subordination in Latin America
'Hernández has constructed a well-written accessible analysis of racial subordination that deserves a wide audience in and beyond Latin America, especially among policy makers. Summing up: highly recommended. All readership levels.' C. H. Blake, Choice