Tanya Hernández participated in a panel discussion on new perspectives on racial identities and issues.
Last Thursday we hosted a discussion between four brilliant scholars publishing work that challenges accepted narratives of history and sheds light on topics like mixed-race identity, and Afro-Latinx identity in relation to law and cultural politics. In discussing her book Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination Tanya K. Hernandez, a civil rights lawyer for over 25 years, explained that “writing this book was a way to sort through my own confusion in how commentators talk about multiracial identified people and the discrimination they face.”
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