@article{841041,
      recid = {841041},
      author = {Hernández, Tanya Katerí.},
      title = {Racial subordination in Latin America the role of the  state, customary law, and the new civil rights response /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      pages = {viii, 247 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"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 U.S.-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 U.S. 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"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/841041},
}