In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women,
are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alone political theorists. But in the …

For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism
destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study …

Race mixture, or mestizaje, has played a critical role in the history, culture, and politics of
Latin America. In Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom, Peter Wade draws on a …

In the contemporary world,“race” narratives are so multifaceted that at times, different views
of the concept appear mutually incompatible. In recent decades biologists, especially …

This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race
on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro …

In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, rarely are black women, especially poor black
women, considered leaders of social movements, much less political theorists. While Afro …

This groundbreaking text explores the dramatic evolution in Latin American social
movements over the past fifteen years. Leading scholars examine a variety of cases that …

As categorias de raça e de gênero têm ocupado papel fundamental no esforço
empreendido por algumas disciplinas em desnaturalizar algumas das categorias que …

How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for
combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the US learn from the …

An essay on the diasporic dimension of the politics of black women, particularly on the
understanding of black women in Latin America of their experiences, identities, and social …