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Author: Tanya K. Hernández, Racial Innocence

Tuesday, 7/25/2023
3:00 - 4:00
Excelsior Meeting Room
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Tanya Katerí Hernández will discuss her book, Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and The Struggle for Equality.

Tanya Katerí Hernández is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she is an Associate Director of the Center on Race, Law, & Justice and its Head of Global and Comparative Law Programs & Initiatives. Professor Hernández is a Fulbright Scholar who holds an A.B. from Brown University and a law degree from Yale University.  

Professor Hernández previously served as a Law and Public Policy Affairs Fellow at Princeton University, a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, a Faculty Fellow at the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, and as a Scholar in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Professor Hernández is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the American Law Institute, and the Academia Puertorriqueña de Jurisprudencia y Legislación. 

Her books include Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response (including Spanish & Portuguese translations), Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Law: Racial Discrimination, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination, and Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and The Struggle for Equality.

This is a hybrid event. Registration is required for Zoom attendance. In-person attendance of the Zoom broadcast does not require registration; seats are available first come, first served.

Or, watch on YouTube

There will be time for questions and answers.

Books will be available at the Excelsior Branch while supplies last.

Connect:

Tanya Katerí Hernández - Website

ProfessorTKH - Twitter

Tanya Katerí Hernández - Website

Tanya Katerí Hernández - Instagram

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