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Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Author: Tanya Katerí Hernández
Description
Racial Innocence is the first comprehensive book addressing anti-Black bias within the Latino community, challenging the misconception that Latinos are exempt from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural background. The book demonstrates that a historically marginalized group can experience discrimination and perpetuate it.
Hernández exposes what she calls "the Latino racial innocence cloak," which often blinds Latinos to their complicity in systemic racism. Drawing on interviews, discrimination case files, and civil rights law, she unravel's Latino anti-Black bias across various domains such as workplaces, housing markets, schools, and the criminal justice system.
Themes
- Complexity of Racism: The book emphasizes the multifaceted nature of racism and discusses how different groups experience and perpetuate biases.
- Afro-Latino and African American Victims: It highlights the plight of Afro-Latino and African American victims of anti-Blackness from within Latino communities.
- Call for Equality: Hernandez encourages a reevaluation of perceptions surrounding race relations to move towards a more egalitarian society.
Key Quote
“Profound and revelatory, Racial Innocence tackles head-on the insidious grip of white supremacy on our communities and how we all might free ourselves from its predation.” — Junot Díaz
Additional Reading
New Latine Books
Young Adult
Carnival Fantastico (audiobook)
Few Blue Skies (audiobook)
Translated Literary Fiction
- Autobiography of Cotton: A Novel by Cristina Rivera Garza (translated by Christina MacSweeney, audiobook)
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