Racially-Mixed Personal Identity Equality |
Racially-Mixed Personal Identity Equality
Law, Culture and the Humanities
First published online: 2017-03-24
DOI: 10.1177/1743872117699894
Tanya Katerí Hernández, Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law
Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York
A growing number of commentators view discrimination against multiracial (racially-mixed) people as a distinctive challenge to racial equality. This perspective is based on the belief that multiracial-identified persons experience racial discrimination in a manner that makes it necessary to reconsider civil rights law. This article disputes that premise and deconstructs its Personal Identity Equality approach to anti-discrimination law and demonstrates its ill effects reflected in Supreme Court affirmative action litigation.
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Tags: Law Culture and the Humanities, Personal Identity Equality, Tanya Hernández, Tanya K. Hernández, Tanya Kateri Hernández