Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández’s 2022 book, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, was reviewed by the New York Amsterdam News.
There is a general belief in the United States that Latinos can’t be racist.
Both Black and Latino communities have faced decades of discrimination. The Black community — composed of African Americans and others of African descent — confronts race-based discrimination, while Latinos confront ethnic discrimination. The two groups have frequently joined together to fight for civil rights.
Yet, as Fordham University Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández points out in her 2022 book, “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality,” there are also conflicts between the two groups that need to be acknowledged.
