{"title":"Afrodescendants, Law, and Race in Latin America","authors":"T. Hernández","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-9","url":null,"abstract":"Law and Society research in and about Latin America has been particularly beneficial in elucidating the gap between the ideals of racial equality laws in the region and the actual subordinated status of its racialized subjects. This chapter maps recurring research themes in the race-related socio-legal literature, mostly focusing on studies about afro-descendant populations and the ways in which states throughout the region have dealt with ideas of race and racial discrimination. I organize this literature according to the analysis of what Latin American states have achieved –or not- in addressing racial inclusion, racial discrimination, and racial equality through reparations and affirmative action. As a result, I identify three sets of sociolegal debates: the limits of multicultural constitutional reform for full political participation; the limits of the Latin American emphasis on criminal law to redress discriminatory actions; and the challenges to implementing race conscious public policies such as affirmative action. Following my mapping of the field, I signal the resistance of legal systems to enforcing anti-discrimination measures in order to show that future research should interrogate the judicial presumption that racial violence does not and has not existed in Latin America, and the resulting social is empowerment of not naming violence as racial.","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126036331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Law and Violence in Latin America","authors":"Julieta Lemaitre","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123290862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prisoner Capture","authors":"Fiona Macaulay","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"233 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121573663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State and Law in Latin America","authors":"L. Hilbink, J. Gallagher","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122268390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal Institutions as Arenas for Promoting Human Rights","authors":"Karina Ansolabehere","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132229243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Rights Ombudsmen in Latin America","authors":"Fredrik Uggla","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133958733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Society, the State, and Recognition of the Right to a Self-Perceived Gender Identity","authors":"Laura Saldivia Menajovsky","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134125846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Judicialization of Politics in Latin America","authors":"Bruce M. Wilson, Camila Gianella","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115327496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transitional Justice and the Politics of Prosecuting Gross Human Rights Violations in Latin America","authors":"E. Barahona, Martha Gutiérrez","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123942672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban Regulation and the Latin American City","authors":"Rodrigo Meneses Reyes","doi":"10.4324/9781315645193-25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315645193-25","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":107947,"journal":{"name":"Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129470661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}