Prof Lucia Sa

Research interests

Brazilian literature and culture. Indigenous cultures of Brazil. Contemporary indigenous cultural production from Brazil. Racism against indigenous populations. The city in Brazil and Spanish America from 19th-century to the present. Current projects: Racism and anti-racism in Brazil: the case of indigenous peoples' (with Felipe Milanez Pereira, UFBA); and 'Cultures of anti-racism in Latin America (with Peter Wade and Ignacio Aguiló). Author of Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo (Routledge 2007); Rain Forest Literatures: Amazonian Texts and Latin American Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2004).