Racial subordination in Latin America : the role of the state, customary law, and the new civil rights response / Tanya Katerí Hernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Tanya Katerí, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race discrimination--Law and legislation--Latin America.

Race discrimination.

Africans--Legal status, laws, etc--Latin America.

Africans.

Customary law--Latin America.

Customary law.

Civil rights--Latin America.

Civil rights.

Africans--Legal status, laws, etc.

Race discrimination--Law and legislation.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of US-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the contemporary development of racial equality laws across the region. Therefore, the book has a particular relevance for the contemporary US racial context in which Jim Crow laws have long been abolished and a 'post-racial' rhetoric undermines the commitment to racial equality laws and policies amidst a backdrop of continued inequality.

Contents:

Racial innocence and the customary law of race regulation

Spanish America whitening the race

the un(written) laws of Blanqueamiento and Mestizaje

Brazilian "Jim Crow" : the immigration law whitening project and the customary law of racial segregation

a case study

The social exclusion of afro-descendants in Latin America today

Afro-descendant social justice movements and the new antidiscrimination laws

Brazil : at the forefront of Latin American race-based affirmative action policies and census racial data collection

Conclusion : the United States-Latin America connections.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139176125

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