Dartmouth Events

"Multiracials and Civil Rights," Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández

The William H. Timbers '37 Lecture: "Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination.” Discrimination against multiracial people is a distinctive challenge to enforcement of civil rights law.

Monday, October 30, 2017
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Multiracials and Civil Rights examines multiracial discrimination legal cases to explore the question of whether discrimination against racially-mixed people is a challenge to the enforcement of civil rights law, concluding that there is a need to fortify the focus of civil rights law on white racial privilege and the legacy of bias against all non-whites.  

Tanya Katerí Hernández, is the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, and an internationally recognized comparative race law expert and Fulbright Scholar who has visited at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, in Paris and the University of the West Indies Law School, in Trinidad. Professor Hernandez’s scholarly interest is in the study of comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law as displayed in the book Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response," (Cambridge Univ. Press).  Her next book "Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination" is forthcoming from NYU Press.

Co-sponsored by Dartmouth Lawyers Association and Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group

For more information, contact:
Joanne Needham
603-646-2207

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.