Negative Rights: Racial Segregation and the Law in Twentieth Century Brazil

Thursday, February 29, 1:00-2:30 p.m. | University of Toronto Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100, 170 St. George Street

Though Brazil and the United States share a history of deep racial inequalities and discrimination, they have pronounced differences in frameworks of civil rights. This presentation places those patterns of rights in conversation, and focuses on ways in which twentieth-century Brazilians who were Black made claims in a context of negative rights.

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Jerry Dávila is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Chair in Brazilian History and Executive Director of the Illinois Global Institute at UIUC. Dávila’s research focuses on the influence of racial thought and social movements on public policy in Brazil. He is the author of Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization (Duke, 2010), Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Public Policy in Brazil (Duke, 2003), and Dictatorship in South America (Wiley, 2013), and also co-authored A History of World Societies, 12th ed. (Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2021).

This event is organized in partnership with the University of Toronto Latin American Studies Program and York’s CERLAC. It is sponsored by the Albert Tucker Speakers’ Series of the Glendon History Department.