Black Lives Matter in Latin America - A Documentary
A Latin American Studies Tertulia with BSP featuring a screening and discussion with filmmaker Dr. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
The documentary Black Lives Matter in Latin America by Dr. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour (Professor and Dan T. Blue Endowed Chair of Political Science at North Carolina Central University) focuses on interviews of Afro-descendant Latin American scholars and activists from countries including Brazil, Argentina, and Peru. It also includes interviews with North American and African scholars that work in collaboration with Latin American Afro-descendants to combat racism, challenge racial inequality, and promote Black rights in Latin America. It includes footage of protests and the work that these activists and scholars are involved in to combat police brutality and harassment of Afro-descendants. It also includes footage of key leaders such as Douglas Belchior, co-founder of Uneafro, an organization that offers free college preparatory courses for poor and Afro-descendant youth and Monica Cunha, former city councilwoman of Rio de Janeiro and founder of Movimento Moleque, a group committed to fighting against police killings of Black youth.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 | 4:30-6:00PM (PST)
The Gildred Room, Latin American Studies Building
Event Details
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About the Executive Producer
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, PhD is Professor and Dan T. Blue Endowed Chair of Political Science at North Carolina Central University. Dr. Mitchell-Walthour studies Brazilian racial politics, affirmative action, and the intersection of social welfare, race, and gender. In 2024, she published the co-edited volume, “Black Lives Matter in Latin America” (Palgrave MacMillan). In 2023, she published “The Politics of Survival: The Political Opinions of Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the USA” (Columbia University Press). She is the author of “The Politics of Blackness” (2018, Cambridge University Press). Mitchell-Walthour is the past president of the Brazilian Studies Association (2018-2020) and has been the National Co-coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil since 2019. She is a Board Member of the Washington Brazil Office. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the Fulbright (2022). In 2014, she was the Lemann Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. She holds the PhD in political science from the University of Chicago, an MPP from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and a BA from Duke University.
