Multiracials and Civil Rights Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination / Tanya Katerí Hernández.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hernández, Tanya Katerí, auteur.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colorisme--États-Unis.

Colorisme.

United States--Relations raciales.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 195 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Commanding greater public attention is the idea that discrimination against multiracial (racially-mixed) people is a distinctive challenge to the enforcement of civil rights law. This perspective is based upon the belief that multiracials experience racial discrimination in a unique manner that makes it necessary to reformulate traditional civil rights law. 'Multiracials and Civil Rights', based upon a close examination of many multiracial discrimination legal cases in a variety of equality law contexts, demonstrates the fallacy and danger of that conjecture. The text elucidates the distinction between the presumed exceptional space that multiracial persons are rhetorically imagined to occupy in the public discourse, and the binary non-white versus white realities they actually experience when targeted for discrimination.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface. An Afro-Latina’s experience of racial mixture

1. Racial mixture as a presumed complication in antidiscrimination law

2. Multiracial employment discrimination

3. Multiracial discrimination in education

4. Multiracial housing and public accommodations discrimination

5. Multiracial discrimination in the criminal justice system

6. Personal racial identity equality

7. The way forward: the Socio-political race approach

Acknowledgments

Appendix of selected cases

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-179) and index.

Publie precedemment en version imprimee : 2018.

Titre de l'ecran-titre (visionne le 28 janvier 2019).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-4074-2

OCLC:

1083444755