Black Lives Matter – Latinx Talk

Interview with Tanya Katerí Hernández, Author of Racial Innocence

Latinx Talk: Why did you write Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality? Tanya Katerí Hernández: At

Over the summer of 2020, I observed many social media posts forged in the weeks after the murder of George

Growing up in El Paso, TX (EPT) and embodying three marginalized identities—gay, Black and Mexican—made me acutely aware of the

“Unity of our struggles means terror/ in the enemy’s eyes/ Unity of just struggles, means/ death to imperialism,” wrote Amiri

Dear Latines,[1] your antiblackness will not save you. Your aspirations to whiteness are deadly (RIP Trayvon Martin; RIP Philando Castile);