Fortunately, Lucrecia chose to ignore her family's demands. Years later, Nina would give birth to her own dark-haired, curly-haired daughter, Tanya Kateri Hernandez. But unlike the childhood Nina endured in a home plagued by racism, Tanya grew up proud to be Afro-Puerto Rican thanks to her mother, who instilled in her a love of Blackness.
Hernandez (New York, 60 years old) is today an expert in law, racial discrimination and critical race theory. Also a professor at Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan, she has devoted her entire career to researching Latino Anti-Blackness: its origins, its manifestations in different areas such as labor and education, its consequences... But above all, Hernandez has focused her efforts on conveying what she has experienced first-hand and what she has later proven through her research: that racism exists within the Latino community.
Anti-Blackness is considered, according to Hernandez, to be someone else's problem specifically, a United States problem because the myth persists that the Latino community is a mestizo community and
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