Dr. Marcelo Paixão

Marcelo Paixão is an Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a faculty at the African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS), in conjunction with the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS). Prof. Marcelo is a Brazilian economist and holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (IUPERJ, Brazil). Before coming to Austin, he has been a Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) for 16 years, the same place where he majored. Between 2012-2013, he was Visiting Professor at Princeton University, where he was a member of the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA). He is the author of several books and articles about race and labor relations in Brazil, among others: A Lenda da Modernidade Encantada (Ed. CRV) e 500 Años de Soledad: estudíos sobre las desigualdades raciales en Brasil (Ed. Universidad Nacional de Colombia). In 2018, he was tenured Vice-President of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA). Currently, he is a member of AADS Executive Committee. His area of expertise is ethnic and racial relations and inequalities in Brazil and Latin America.

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CONTACT

African and African Diaspora Studies Department (AADS)

The University of Texas at Austin
210 W. 24th Street
Mailcode E3400
Austin, TX 78712
Phone (512) 471-2733
Office: GWB 3.142
marcelopaixao@utexas.edu

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SELECTED BOOKS

• Paixão, Marcelo. 2016. Quinientos años de soledad: estúdios sobre las desigualdades raciales en Brasil. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
• Paixão, Marcelo. 2013. A lenda da modernidade encantada: por uma crítica ao pensamento social brasileiro sobre relações raciais e projeto de Estado-Nação. Curitiba: Ed CRV.
• Paixão, Marcelo. 2009. The Paradox of  the “Good” Student: race and the Brazilian education system. Washington, DC: PREAL.

SELECTED BOOK CHAPTERS

• Paixão, Marcelo, and Irene Rossetto. 2019. “The Labyrinth of Ethnic-Racial Inequality: a Picture of Latin America according to the recent Census Rounds.” In Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America edited by
  Kwame Dixon and Ollie Johnson. New York, NY : Routledge.
• Paixão, Marcelo, and Flávio Gomes. 2017. “Histories of Differences and Inequalities Revisited: Notes on Gender, Slavery, Race, and Post-Emancipation.” In Black Women of Brazil in Slavery and Post-Emancipation edited by Giovana Xavier, Flávio Gomes, and Juliana Barreto. 391-418. New York: Diasporic Africa Press.
• Moraes Silva, Graziella, and Marcelo Paixão. 2014. “Mixed and Unequal: New Perspectives on Brazilian Ethnoracial Relations.” In Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America edited by Edward Telles. 172-217. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

SELECTED ARTICLES

• Paixão, Marcelo, and Irene Rossetto. 2018. “Chess game for affirmative action at UFRJ.” Brasiliana – Journal for Brazilian Studies,  6(2), 83-104. https://doi.org/10.25160/v6.i2/d4.
• Telles, Edward, and Marcelo Paixão. 2013. “Affirmative action in Brazil.” LASA Forum, XLIV(2):10-12.
• Paixão, Marcelo. 2009. “La variable color o raza en los censos demográficos brasileños: historia y estimación reciente de las asimetrías”. Notas de Población, 36(89): 187-224.
• Paixão, Marcelo. 2004.”Waiting for the Sun: An Account of the (Precarious) Social Situation of the African Descendant Population in Contemporary Brazil”. Journal of Black Studies, 34(6): 743-765.

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Globo TV – 2007 – Programa do Jô

CULTNE – 2014 – Book launch of “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.” in Portuguese

Canal Futura – 2013 – Conexão Futura

CULTNE – 2013 – Brazil’s National Conference for the Promotion of Racial Equality (III CONAPIR)

Globo News – 2013 – Jornal das Seis

GRADE Peru – 2012 – 0 Situación actual de los afrodescendientes en el Perú

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