The Latin American Studies Annual Lecture, “Rethinking Brazilian Race Relations in the Era of Affirmative Action,” is Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 4:30 p.m. in Bentley Hall 124.
Dr. Jerry Davila
This year’s speaker is Dr. Jerry Dávila, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History and Director of the Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies at the University of Illinois.
His work focuses on the influence of racial thought in public policy, as well as the state and social movements in 20th-century Brazil. He is the author of Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization (Duke, 2010), winner of the Latin Studies Association Brazil Section Book Prize. He also wrote Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 (Duke, 2003).
Refreshments will be served after the talk.
This event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the departments of History and Political Science and the Wealth and Poverty curricular theme.
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