Street Democracy: Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico

I am a historian of race and popular culture in modern Brazil. My book manuscript, Surrendering to the Street in Mid-Century Recife: The Living Legacies of Slavery in Black and White, offers a top-down and bottom-up account of masculinity, violence, and authority in a majority nonwhite port city in Northeast Brazil. In May 2021, I completed my Ph.D. in history at Duke. Since first arriving in 2014, I held multiple roles in the public humanities. From 2014 t