Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies McNeil 473 (3718 Locust Walk)
Please join us as we welcome Márcia Lima, the National Secretary for Affirmative Action Policies and Combating Racism in the Brasilian Ministry of Racial Equality. She will present "Affirmative Action and Combating Racism Policies: Challenges of the Brazilian Racial Equality Agenda."
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About the presenter:
Márcia Lima is National Secretary for Affirmative Action Policies and Combating Racism of the Ministry of Racial Equality of Brazil. She is a professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). She is also a senior researcher at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP), where she coordinates the AFRO-Research Group on Race, Gender, and Racial Justice. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2001). She was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University (2011-2012). She was a Visiting Fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies at Harvard University (2016-2017). Her intellectual agenda focuses on race and gender inequalities. She has extensive experience coordinating research on racial disparities and related topics. She has published and supervised students in the following areas: labor market, affirmative action, black feminism, black movement.