Her extensive body of work includes an 808-page “biography” of Brazil spanning 500 years of history, which she co-wrote with Heloisa Starling, and a popular YouTube channel where she delves into the country's most pressing contemporary issues. Her new book, about the historical roots of Brazil's authoritarianism, will come out in May 2019. This staggering figure is equivalent to the average yearly number of deaths in war-torn Syria, as anthropologist Lilia Moritz Schwarcz points out in her efforts to highlight the issue of racism in her country.Ī professor at the University of São Paulo and Global Scholar at Princeton University, Moritz Schwarcz is a leading Brazilian historian and anthropologist who is widely acclaimed for flashing out the legacy of Brazil's slavery past. In 2016, the total number of violent deaths reached 61.283. In Brazil, nearly 72 percent of homicide victims are black, according to 2018 statistics. Photo: Leonor Calasans/University of São Paulo, used with permission.
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