Professor Antonio Sérgio Alfredo GUIMARÃES. DOB 12/02/1949. PhD, Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison (1988) M.A. (1982) and B.A. (1972) Social Sciences (Universidade Federal da Bahia). Professor Titular, Senior, Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Sociologia, and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, UK. He is a CNPq (1A) researcher at CEBRAP. Previous Appointments: Tinker Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Department of Sociology (Spring 2019). Visiting Professor at Universidade Federal da Bahia, Graduate School of Social Sciences (2018-2); Simon Bolivar Professor at the University of Cambridge, UK, Center of Latin American Studies (2016-2017), Titulaire de la Chaire Sérgio Buarque de Holanda no Institut d'Études Politiques da Université de Bordeaux IV (2010-2014); Lemann Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2014); Visiting Professor at Princeton University (2007-2008); Associate Professor da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Departamento de Sociologia (1979-1996). Visiting researcher at several foreign universities, including Oxford University (Centre for Brazilian Studies), Brown University (Program of Afro-American Studies), University of California at Los Angeles (Department of Sociology), Institut de Recherche et Devellopment; Ecole de Hautes Etudes in Sciences Sociales (Centre de Recherche sur le Brésil Contemporain and Centre d?Études Africaines). Previous Positions: Chair of Graduate Studies (presidente da Comissão de Pós-Graduação) Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da USP (2005-2007); Chair of the Brazilian Society of Sociology (SBS) from 1996 to 1998 and director of the Center for Human Resources (CRH) UFBA between 1990 and 1992. Other Titles and Honors: Main Researcher FAPESP (2009-2015); Researcher A1 CNPq; Comendador, Order of Scientific Merit (2008), Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil; Member of the Friends Association of Fondation Maison des Sciences de l?Homme. Committee Boards of Scientific Journals: Ethnic and Racial Studies; Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (Univ. Candido Mendes); Afro-Asia (UFBA); Cahiers d?Etudes de l?Amerique Latine (IHEAL, Paris); The Journal of Multicultural Studies (KOREA) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) intends to be a world-class center which is also committed to knowledge diffusion and technology transfer. Hosted at CEBRAP and composed by associated university departments, the center is composed by a multi-disciplinary group - demographers, political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and anthropologists -, whose research agenda aims at stu…
The Centro de Estudos da Metrópole (Center for Metropolitan Studies) – CEM develops advanced studies on themes related to urban processes, with emphasis on the Brazilian context and in a dialogue with the world production in the area. Its central proposal is to investigate the reproduction mechanisms of social inequality in metropolitan environments. It is not the case of merely producing…
In this research, I will comparatively reconstruct the trajectory of "Blacks" and "Japanese Brazilians" in Brazilian society, considering both the broader history of these ethnic-racial groups and the concrete life histories of families belonging to these groups that are now living in São Paulo city. The choice of these two groups is justified not only because both represent - in differen…
The aim of this project is to investigate the formation of whiteness in Southern Brazil in the post-World War II period. Based on propositions of the critical whiteness studies, a tendency still not much developed in Brazil, and on some clues present in the Brazilian social thought tradition, I argue that in that moment have taken place some decisive transformations that shaped our curren…
This project`s proposal is to investigate the trajectory of Sydnei Lima Santos. Black and born in 1925 in Rio de Janeiro, where he entered the military career, Santos moved in 1951 to Curitiba and made in the city simultaneously a movement of social ascension in the military career and a successful activity as a private education entrepreneur. When he died, in 2002, he was the owner of on…
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The objective of the research internship abroad (BEPE-FAPESP) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is to investigate more broadly the transformation examined in my doctoral thesis: the transformation of Japanese in Brazil from an undesirable immigrant in 1946 to a desirable/celebrated immigrant in 1958. Going beyond the already analyzed documentation (Brazilian newspapers and …
This is a BEPE proposal for a period of 8 months at New York University under the advisory of prof. Barbara Weinstein. The research to be carried out during the internship is linked to my broader Ph.D. investigation about the making of whiteness in postwar south Brazil. More specifically, I will address problems related to whiteness, regionalism and racial democracy based fundamentally on…
O projeto tem um duplo objetivo: de um lado, especificar a solução defendida pelo Partido Comunista dos Estados Unidos para o problema da opressão negra na sociedade norte-americana entre os anos de 1920 e 1950, de outro lado, entender as experiências de vinculações, tensões e distensões dos intelectuais negros com o Partido Comunista, mas também a forma como muitos deles vivenciaram sua …
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