Readings
Required
- Edward Telles and Tianna Paschel “Who Is Black, White, or Mixed Race? How Skin Color, Status, and Nation Shape Racial Classification in Latin America,” American Journal of Sociology 120, no. 3 (2014): 864–907.
- Cleuci De Oliveira “Brazil’s New Problem with Blackness,” Foreign Policy, April 2017.
- Cleuci de Oliveira “The Right to Kill,” Foreign Policy, April 2018.
Personal recommendations
- Cyril Lionel Robert James The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (Vintage, 1989).
- Graziella Moraes Silva, Veronica Toste Daflon, and Camille Giraut “Seeing Race Like a State: Higher Education Affirmative Action Verification Commissions in Brazil,” Latin American Politics and Society (July 2023): 1–26, doi:10.1017/lap.2023.18.
- James C. Scott Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (yale university Press, 1998).