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Our speaker will be Tianna Paschel, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Berkeley University. She is interested in the intersection of racial ideology, politics, and globalization in Latin America. Her work can be found in the American Journal of Sociology, the Du Bois Review, SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, and Ethnic and Racial Studies, various edited volumes as well as in two forthcoming books, Becoming Black Political Subjects and an interdisciplinary volume - Afro-Latinos in Movement co-edited with Petra Rivera-Rideau and Jennifer Jones – that explores transnationalism and blackness in the Americas.

She will be presenting a paper titled, "Exporting Racial Paradise: The Transnational Making and Unmaking of Brazil"