Racial Subordination in Latin America
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Racial Subordination in Latin America

The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response

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Racial Subordination in Latin America

The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9781107024861
eBook ISBN
9781139786676
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. RACIAL SUBORDINATION IN LATIN AMERICA
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. MAPS
  8. 1 RACIAL INNOCENCE AND THE CUSTOMARY LAW OF RACE REGULATION
  9. 2 SPANISH AMERICA WHITENING THE RACE – THE UN(WRITTEN) LAWS OF BLANQUEAMIENTO AND MESTIZAJE
  10. 3 BRAZILIAN “JIM CROW”: THE IMMIGRATION LAW WHITENING PROJECT AND THE CUSTOMARY LAW OF RACIAL SEGREGATION – A CASE STUDY
  11. 4 THE SOCIAL EXCLUSION OF AFRO-DESCENDANTS IN LATIN AMERICA TODAY
  12. 5 AFRO-DESCENDANT SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS AND THE NEW ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAWS
  13. 6 BRAZIL: AT THE FOREFRONT OF LATIN AMERICAN RACE-BASED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES AND CENSUS RACIAL DATA COLLECTION
  14. 7 CONCLUSION: THE UNITED STATES–LATIN AMERICA CONNECTIONS
  15. APPENDIX A: AFRO-DESCENDANT ORGANIZATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA
  16. APPENDIX B: TYPOLOGY OF LATIN AMERICAN RACIAL ANTIDISCRIMINATION MEASURES
  17. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  18. INDEX