Live from the Langston Hughes Auditorium on Jan. 19, 2023 at 6:30pm.

Conversation with Tanya Katerí Hernández author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality

Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality is described as the first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity and multicultural background. Join us for a conversation with Racial Innocence author, Tanya Katerí Hernández, law professor and comparative race relations. She will be in conversation with Deule Ross, Senior Counsel for NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

Participants:
Tanya Katerí Hernández is an internationally recognized comparative race law expert and a professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches anti-discrimination law, comparative employment discrimination, and critical race theory. A Fulbright scholar, Princeton and Rutgers fellow, and former scholar in residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, she specializes in comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law. Hernández is the author of multiple books, including Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination.

Deuel Ross is a Senior Counsel & Director of Professional Development at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (“LDF”). In that role, he uses litigation and advocacy to ensure equal access to educational opportunities and the political process for people of color. Deuel also represents students of color in school desegregation cases in Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and elsewhere. He played a lead role in negotiating a new comprehensive, multi-year settlement with Connecticut in the landmark Sheff v. O’Neill case. And he argued Banks v. St. James Parish School Board in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, where the Court found that charter schools can be held accountable to desegregation orders.

GET THE BOOK
Readers who wish to purchase copies of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality, can do so in-person from The Schomburg Shop in Harlem (while supplies last). All proceeds benefit The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.