Media — Jasmine Mitchell, PhD

Op-eds, Opinions, and Public Writing

“The U.S. Must Follow Brazil’s Lead,” November 4, 2022, Newsweek.

“Racism is Fueling Brazil’s COVID-19 Crisis,” May 4, 2021, Newsweek.

“13 de Maio: comemorar o qûe?,” collaborative writing campaign of Geledés Instituto da Mulher Negra, US Network for Democracy in Brazil, and Afro-Brazilian Alliance

Why the U.S. Should Pay Close Attention to Race and Class in Response to Brazilian Insurrection

Events and Book Talks

April 27

Is There a “Mulatto Escape Hatch” Out of Racism?: A Reflection on Multiracial Exceptionalism During a Time of #BlackLivesMatter

Fordham University Law School Center on Race, Law and Justice

March 3

Book Talk-Soka University

January 21st

Book Talk-Critical Mixed Race Studies Association

9:30am EST

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-mixed-race-studies-book-talk-series-imagining-the-mulatta-registration-136448159117?aff=ebdssbeac

October 19

Book Talk-SUNY Old Westbury

3:50-5:20 EST

Registration link: https://suny-ow-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrf-mqqj4sHtC4DENyeT1Xqkey-34TX8b1

October 8th

Book Talk-Phillips Academy Andover

6pm EST

https://events.attend.com/f/1383792595#/reg/0/

October 7th

VP Debate Analysis and Commentary sponsored by Electable

9pm EST http://bit.ly/electablewatchparty

September 15th

New Orleans, Wake Up!

7pm EST Live Radio Interview

https://www.blogtalkradio.com/new-orleans-wake-up/2020/09/17/blackness-in-us-and-brazilian-media

Books

Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media.

University of Illinois Press, 2020.

Book Chapters

Expressing Race in Brazilian Telenovelas

Writing About Screen Media, edited by Lisa Patti, 96-100. London: Routledge Press, 2019.

Indigeneity and Fictions of Brazilian National Identity: Quincenntenial Representations of Mestiçagem in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

Comparative Indigeneities of the Americas, edited by Arturo J. Aldama, M. Bianet Castellanos, and Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera, 81-95. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2012.

“Gesturing Towards Tenuous Inclusion” in Sparked: George Floyd, Racism, and the Progressive Illusion

Edited by Walt Jacobs, Wendy Thompson Taiwo and Amy August, 61-64. St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2021. Reprinted from the Wonderful/Wretched Memories of Racial Dynamics in the Twin Cities special issue of The Society Pages.

Articles, Book Reviews, and Commentaries

African American Intellectual Historical Society Roundtable and Book Review on Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media

“Spectacles of Multiculturalism: Brazilian National identity, FIFA, and Hegemonies of Whiteness at the 2014 World Cup ceremonies.” Sport in Society (2022)

“Deployments of Multiracial Masculinity and Anti-Black Violence: The Racial Framings of Barack Obama, George Zimmerman, and Daunte Wright.” Social Sciences 11 (2022)

“Back to Race, Not Beyond Race: Multiraciality and Racial identity in the United States and Brazil.” Comparative Migration Studies 10 (2022)

Commentary and Book Review: Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed Race Stories of Discrimination. Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development 34.1(2020).

Racism is Fueling Brazil’s COVID-19 CrisisNewsweek, May 4, 2021 — Racism is Fueling Brazil’s COVID-19 Crisis
Newsweek, May 4, 2021

The Ride of Valkyrie Against White Supremacy: Tessa Thompson’s Casting in Thor Ragnorak

Invited Public Talks and Workshops

2023 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Book Talk on Imagining the Mulatta
2023 Universidade de São Paulo talk on Lutando e se misturando: branquitude, mestiçagem, e mulheres afrodescendentes nas telenovelas brasileiras
2023 Williams College Book Talk on Imagining the Mulatta
2022 Branquitude nas telenovelas. Diálogos pra NÃO passar em branco-Afroeducação e Instituto Ella.
2021 Medo e desejo de mulheres afrodescendentes. Seminário Grupo GELiDis: Linguagens e Discursos Ficcionais de Televisão. Universidade de São Paulo