Professor Tanya Hernández was quoted in a Moguldom article discussing the assimilation of many immigrant communities into anti-Black racism — the subject of her upcoming release On Latino Anti-Black Bias: ‘Racial Innocence’ & The Struggle for Equality.
One complaint in Black America is that it seems it is always under attack — even from other Black people or people of color. Even immigrants feed into and adopt anti-Blackness, according to Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley. Black Americans are sometimes looked down upon by African and Caribbean immigrants, and Latino immigrants often latch onto conservative and racist political rhetoric, some in Black America complain.
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Part of Latinos’ racial understanding is shedding the idea that “Blackness is something else that is U.S.-based” and “doesn’t directly affect our Afro-Latino brothers and sisters,” said Fordham University law professor Tanya Hernandez, in an NBC News interview. Hernandez wrote the book “On Latino Anti-Black Bias: ‘Racial Innocence’ & The Struggle for Equality.”
Latinos “need to stop acting as if our ethnicity shields us from any implications regarding racial issues,” Hernandez said. “An ethnic group is not impervious to issues of racism simply because they, too, are victims of racialization.”
