Racial subordination in Latin America : the role of the state, customary law, and the new civil rights response /

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"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 segrega...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hernández, Tanya Katerí (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Race discrimination > Law and legislation > Latin America.
Africans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Latin America.
Customary law > Latin America.
Civil rights > Latin America.
Droit coutumier > Amérique latine.
LAW > General.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Africans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Civil rights
Customary law
Race discrimination > Law and legislation
Latin America
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Racial innocence and the customary law of race regulation
  • Spanish America whitening the race
  • the un(written) laws of Blanqueamiento and Mestizaje
  • Brazilian "Jim Crow" : the immigration law whitening project and the customary law of racial segregation
  • a case study
  • The social exclusion of afro-descendants in Latin America today
  • Afro-descendant social justice movements and the new antidiscrimination laws
  • Brazil : at the forefront of Latin American race-based affirmative action policies and census racial data collection
  • Conclusion : the United States-Latin America connections.

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