The Journal of Latin American Studies just published my review of Jessica Graham’s excellent Shifting the Meaning of Democracy: Race, Politics, and Culture in the U.S. and Brazil. Check out an excerpt below, and find the full piece here: https://lnkd.in/dW-uF59N.
“Shifting the Meaning of Democracy won seven book prizes following its 2019 publication. Those extraordinary accolades reflect the originality and quality of Graham’s contribution, along with, in my estimation, the salience of this book for our current, comparable period of discursive mosh-pitting around the meanings of democracy, race and racial democracy in Brazil, the United States and far beyond. The relevance of the text has only increased in the years since its publication, including in the aftermath of parallel and intersecting anti-democratic movements in both countries.”