{"id":45358,"date":"2016-01-25T19:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45358"},"modified":"2016-07-02T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T21:03:10","slug":"law-is-still-black-white-not-multiracial-fordham-prof-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45358","title":{"rendered":"Law is still black &#038; white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utimes.pitt.edu\/?p=37776\" target=\"_blank\">Law is still black &amp; white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utimes.pitt.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University Times: The Faculty &amp; Staff Newspaper Since 1968<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<br \/>\n2016-01-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marty Levine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence of anti-black prejudice, and there is no need to change civil rights laws.<\/p>\n<p>That was the message of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/info\/23144\/tanya_hernandez\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Hernandez<\/a>, professor of law at Fordham University, who delivered the final fall Buchanan, Ingersoll &amp; Rooney lecture in the School of Social Work\u2019s Center on Race and Social Problems last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez, author of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27563\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Subordination in Latin America<\/a>,\u201d spoke on the topic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitt.hosted.panopto.com\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=c888752c-407a-40cb-8c42-4cf54364f055\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial in the Workplace: A New Kind of Discrimination?<\/a>\u201d She is studying mixed-race identity and discrimination law in the United States in preparation for her next book&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utimes.pitt.edu\/?p=37776\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law is still black &amp; white, not multiracial, Fordham prof says University Times: The Faculty &amp; Staff Newspaper Since 1968 University of Pittsburgh 2016-01-07 Marty Levine Despite the fact that more people are identifying themselves as multiracial on the U.S. census, decisions in discrimination cases involving multiracial defendants still are primarily based on the presence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20],"tags":[22790,2113,5161,2112,10001,22789],"class_list":["post-45358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-marty-levine","tag-tanya-hernandez","tag-tanya-k-hernandez","tag-tanya-kateri-hernandez","tag-university-of-pittsburgh","tag-university-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45371,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45358\/revisions\/45371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}