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'Hernandez 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

'Hernandez 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

A hard-hitting, tightly argued examination of present-day racial inequality in Latin America, the roots of that inequality in 19th- and 20th-century state policies, and current efforts to overcome that historical legacy. Hernandez definitively lays to rest the notion that Latin American states played no role in the construction and maintenance of white racial privilege. --George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh Tanya Kateri Hernandez traces the 'myth of racial innocence' in which Latin America shrouds itself, and then she shatters it. This book is a crucial corrective for anyone interested in race in Latin America. Or in the United States, which increasingly proclaims its own mythical innocence. --Ian Haney Lopez, John H. Boalt Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley Finally we have a serious, comprehensive, and accessible book on racial matters in Latin America. Professor Hernandez skillfully shows how 'customary law' has been used by states in the region to maintain racial order (i.e., white supremacy) since independence. This is a major contribution and, from now on, no one can believe anymore that racism is not part of the Latin American experience. Bravo Professor Hernandez for a job well done! --Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University Racial Subordination in Latin America reveals the folly of post-racial thinking in the United States, where a legal system of segregation and classification are thought to underlie racial difference, inequality, discrimination and segregation. In the minds of post-racialists, such divisions have been presumably laid to rest with the civil rights revolution and the recent election of a black president. By contrast, Latin American countries have rarely used explicit race-based laws to structure their societies. Thus, one could say that 'postracial' societies existed south of the U.S. border long before they did in the U.S. However, racial discrimination and inequality have been rampant throughout that region. With this book, legal scholar Tanya K. Hernandez now compels us to rethink how apparently progressive national ideologies and cultural norms continue to structure deep-seated racism and inequality in modern societies, despite the absence of legal structures. --Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

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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 Faculty Fellowship at the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality for 2011–13. She has previously served as a Law and Public Policy Affairs Fellow at Princeton University, a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, and as an Independent Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In 2011, Professor Hernández was named a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and in 2009 she was elected to the American Law Institute. Hispanic Business magazine selected her as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics of 2007. Professor Hernández serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Legal Education, and the Latino Studies Journal published by Palgrave-Macmillian. Professor Hernández's scholarly interest is in the study of comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law, and her work in that area has been published in the California Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal amongst other publications.

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