Kenneth A. Loparo 
Reimagining Black Difference and Politics in Brazil [PDF ebook] 
From Racial Democracy to Multiculturalism

Introduction: Black Cultural Politics and Decoloniality without Guarantees 1. Post-Racial Ideology, Emergent Multiculturalisms, and the Contemporary Conjuncture of Racial Politics in Brazil 2. The Difference Orùnmilá Makes: Ancestralidade and the Past as Project 3. Afoxé Omo Orùnmilá: History, Culture, and Politics in Movement 4. Hip Hop and the Contemporary Politics of Ancestralidade 5. The Struggle to Decolonize Knowledge and Pedagogy 6. Contested Inclusions: Education Reforms and the Hyperconsciousness/negation of Race 7. Educator Experiences with Anti-Racist Pluriculturalismo Conclusion: the Challenges of the Decolonial in Practice

Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa is assistant Professor of Theoretical, Cultural, and International Studies in Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. He received his Ph D from the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University, USA and previously taught courses in Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Global Development Studies at Queen’s University, Canada. He also held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. His research interests include racism, racial ideologies, and white supremacy, anti-racist and decolonial politics, the politics of knowledge in education, and global development. He has published in diverse venues including Journal of Historical Sociology, Third World Quarterly, Cultural Studies, Policy Futures in Education, and Critical Sociology.