"Silva’s pioneering analysis brings attention to the previously unexplored interstices between browns and blacks in terms of blackness and antiracist work. This much needed, timely, and long-overdue book provides a masterful, nuanced, and above all sensitive, analysis of a very complex topic critical to understanding Brazilian race relations and mixed-race peoples’ identities more broadly."

G. Reginald Daniel, author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

"Bringing scholarship on Brazil’s tangled politics of race and racism into the twenty-first century, Silva examines recent shifts in discourse and consciousness among Afro-Brazilians in the era of affirmative action. Anti-racist consciousness building, the practices associated with racial quotas, and the reception of racial messaging in electoral campaigns all come under Silva’s lens. Leaning on Bakhtin’s still trenchant insights, this book provides an accessible and engaging update on a changing nation."

Robin Sheriff, author of Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil