Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour Guest Lecture
Event Start Date: January 17, 2019 7:10 PM
Event End Date: January 17, 2019 8:40 PM
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Black Identity and Continuing Black Movement Activism in Brazil in an Era of Repression
Guest Lecture by Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour
January 17 | 7:10 PM
Grinter Hall 376
Dr.Mitchell-Walthour will discuss the increasing saliency of a black racial identity in Brazil as well as how black activists have organized around such identities including black women’s grassroots organizing. She will discuss how organizing has been challenged but will continue even under a repressive government.
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is an Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Economy in the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a political scientist specializing in Afro-Brazilian political behavior, black racial identity, discrimination, affirmative action and Bolsa Familia. She is currently the president of the Brazil Studies Association. She published the book “The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Latin American Politics & Society, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and the National Political Science Review. She was a Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University in 2014. She holds a Ph.D. from the Universty of Chicago, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan -Ann Arbor, and a BA from Duke University.
Sponsors: Center for Latin American Studies, Multicultural and Diversity Affairs, the Center for Gender Sexualities and Women’s Studies Research