José Vitor Silva Barros

José Vítor Silva Barros is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn (Germany). He holds a BA in International Relations from the Catholic University of São Paulo and an MA in Sociology from the University of São Paulo. He obtained scholarships from the São Paulo Research Foundation, FUNDASP, and Santander Universities. He is also a member of the Red Latinoamericana de Sistemas Sociales y Complejidad and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies. Observing Brazil and the US (1853-2022), his doctoral research investigates whether post-slavery attribution of race has continued to be a decisive factor for inclusion possibilities thanks to racialized role formation in four function systems (politics, law, education, and the economy). His studies gravitate around the (trans)formation of racial differences and asymmetric dependencies, the sociology of international relations, social theory, social systems theory, and historical sociology. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)