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  • Latin American Policy Series (3): Racism and Responses to Racism in Latin America

    This article is a continuation of the Latin American Public Policy Series and briefly introducing the topic “Racism and Responses to Racism in Latin America”, building upon Tanya Hernández´s thoughts, whose book: “Racial Subordination in Latin America – The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response” (Cambridge Press, 2012) which…

  • Why Mixed-Race Americans Will Not Save The Country

    Americans like to fantasize that a mixed-race future will free them from the clutches of racism. But this illusion is incompatible with an America in which the presidential election was won by the candidate who ran a “Make America Great Again” campaign, which many critics have pointed out was widely heard as a call to…

  • Construction of Race and Class Buffers in the Structure of Immigration Controls and Laws

    Construction of Race and Class Buffers in the Structure of Immigration Controls and Laws Oregon Law Review Volume 76 (1997) pages 731-764 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University In the midst of current anti-immigration sentiment, which is motivating dramatic changes in the United States immigration laws, there exists the myth that prior immigration…

  • Mixed marriages, stubborn racial bias: Discrimination persists for the nonwhite

    Mixed marriages, stubborn racial bias: Discrimination persists for the nonwhite The New York Daily News 2016-12-09 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Mildred and Richard Loving (Associated Press) “I ’m pregnant.” Those are the first two words uttered in the recently released film “Loving.” The poignant opening prompts viewers to consider the most contested…

  • The overarching commonality is the exceptionalism of blackness and non-whiteness, rather than multiraciality, as problematic.

    [Tanya K.] Hernandez’s close examination of many multiracial discrimination legal cases in a variety of equality law contexts demonstrates the fallacy and danger of that presumption. The cases frequently describe acts of discrimination accompanied by pointed, derogatory comments about non-whiteness—and blackness in particular. The overarching commonality is the exceptionalism of blackness and non-whiteness, rather than…

  • Multiracialism and Civil Rights

    Fordham Law Professor Tanya Hernandez shared excerpts from her upcoming book on multiracialism and civil rights in talk sponsored by the Center on Race, Law & Justice’s Colloquium on Race and Ethnicity on November 17, not quite seven months shy of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Loving v. Virginia, which…

  • ‘Pigmentocracy’ a Major Factor in Brazil, Venezuela Turmoil

    ‘Pigmentocracy’ a Major Factor in Brazil, Venezuela Turmoil Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-08-11 Ray Legendre A global audience watched Brazil unveil the 2016 Olympics earlier this month with a flashy, jubilant opening ceremony that celebrated its racial diversity and belied its ongoing political and economic strife. But acting President Michel…

  • States of Denial

    States of Denial Fordham Law News: From New York City To You 2016-06-04 When Barack Obama was first elected president in 2008, some pundits declared the United States to have finally reached a triumphal post-racial stage, an era of long-awaited racial harmony after the horrors of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Yet, almost a decade…

  • Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’

    Envisioning the United States in the Latin American myth of ‘racial democracy mestizaje’ Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Published online 2016-04-12 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2016.1170953 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University, The Jesuit University of New York Transnational comparison is relevant both to how racial hierarchy is obscured and elucidated. This Essay traces how…

  • Revealing the Race-Based Realities of Workforce Exclusion

    Revealing the Race-Based Realities of Workforce Exclusion NACLA Report on the Americas Volume 47, Number 4 (Winter 2014) pages 26-29 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Advocates in the fight against poverty in Latin America often center class above race as the factor that most determines Afro-descendants’ life-chances. But a growing movement is…