{"id":55069,"date":"2018-08-21T02:19:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T02:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55069"},"modified":"2019-11-30T23:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-30T23:06:46","slug":"multiracials-and-civil-rights-mixed-race-stories-of-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55069","title":{"rendered":"Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

New York University Press<\/a>
\n2018-08-03
\n224 pages
\nCloth ISBN: 9781479830329<\/p>\n

Tanya Kater\u00ed Hern\u00e1ndez<\/strong><\/a>, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law
\nFordham University School of Law, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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Narratives of mixed-race people bringing claims of racial discrimination in court, illuminating traditional understandings of civil rights law<\/em><\/p>\n

As the mixed-race population in the United States<\/a> grows, public fascination with multiracial identity has promoted the belief that racial mixture will destroy racism. However, multiracial people still face discrimination. Many legal scholars hold that this is distinct from the discrimination faced by people of other races, and traditional civil rights laws built on a strict black\/white binary need to be reformed to account for cases of discrimination against those identifying as mixed-race.<\/p>\n

In Multiracials and Civil Rights<\/em>, Tanya Kater\u00ed Hern\u00e1ndez debunks this idea, and draws on a plethora of court cases to demonstrate that multiracials face the same types of discrimination as other racial groups. Hern\u00e1ndez argues that multiracial people are primarily targeted for discrimination due to their non-whiteness, and shows how the cases highlight the need to support the existing legal structures instead of a new understanding of civil rights law.<\/p>\n

Coming at a time when explicit racism is resurfacing, Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s look at multiracial discrimination cases is essential for fortifying the focus of civil rights law on racial privilege and the lingering legacy of bias against non-whites, and has much to teach us about how to move towards a more egalitarian society.<\/p>\n