1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453025203321

Autore

Hernández Tanya Katerí

Titolo

Racial subordination in Latin America : the role of the state, customary law, and the new civil rights response / / Tanya Katerí Hernández [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-139-79418-3

1-139-88918-4

1-139-77679-7

1-139-78282-7

1-139-77983-4

1-139-78375-0

1-139-17612-9

1-283-71473-6

1-139-77831-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 247 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

342.808/73

Soggetti

Race discrimination - Law and legislation - Latin America

Africans - Legal status, laws, etc - Latin America

Customary law - Latin America

Civil rights - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Racial innocence and the customary law of race regulation -- Spanish America whitening the race -- the un(written) laws of Blanqueamiento and Mestizaje -- Brazilian "Jim Crow" : the immigration law whitening project and the customary law of racial segregation -- a case study -- The social exclusion of afro-descendants in Latin America today -- Afro-descendant social justice movements and the new antidiscrimination laws -- Brazil : at the forefront of Latin American race-based affirmative action policies and census racial data collection -- Conclusion : the United States-Latin America connections.

Sommario/riassunto

There are approximately 150 million people of African descent in Latin



America yet Afro-descendants have been consistently marginalized as undesirable elements of the society. Latin America has nevertheless long prided itself on its absence of US-styled state-mandated Jim Crow racial segregation laws. This book disrupts the traditional narrative of Latin America's legally benign racial past by comprehensively examining the existence of customary laws of racial regulation and the historic complicity of Latin American states in erecting and sustaining racial hierarchies. Tanya Katerí Hernández is the first author to consider the salience of the customary law of race regulation for the contemporary development of racial equality laws across the region. Therefore, the book has a particular relevance for the contemporary US racial context in which Jim Crow laws have long been abolished and a 'post-racial' rhetoric undermines the commitment to racial equality laws and policies amidst a backdrop of continued inequality.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463232003321

Titolo

Virtual culture [[electronic resource] ] : identity and communication in cybersociety / / edited by Steven G. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 1997

ISBN

1-4462-5030-X

1-4462-6445-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesSteve <1961->

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Internet - Social aspects

Computer networks - Social aspects

Telematics - Social aspects

Cyberspace - Social aspects

Communication

Computers and civilization

Communities

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Internet and its Social Landscape; Chapter 2 - The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles; Chapter 3 - Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet; Chapter 4 - Structural Relations, Electronic Media, and Social Change: The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless; Chapter 5 - Why We Argue About Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.Net Fan Community

Chapter 6 - Gay Men and Computer Communication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in CyberspaceChapter 7 - Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment; Chapter 8 - (Re)-Fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman: Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix; Chapter 9 - Approaching the Radical Other: The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate; Chapter 10 - Punishing the Persona: Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender; Chapter 11 - Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Virtual Culture' provides a unique analysis of a previously undocumented aspect of the cybersociety: the way in which under-represented groups are exploiting opportunities provided for social and political change.