Pedro II a tropical king, (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2004), and Brazil: a biography – with Heloisa Starling (Farrar Strauss and Giroux and Penguin UK, to be published in 2017), Lima Barreto sad visionary (2017), Dicionário da escravidão e da Liberdade (with Flavio Gomes), 2018, Sobre o autoritarismo no Brasil (2019). She published several books, such as Retrato em branco e negro (1987), A longa viagem da biblioteca dos reis (2002), O sol do Brasil (2008) Um Enigma chamado Brasil - with Andre Botelho - (2013), A Batalha do Avai – with Lucia Stumpf and Carlos Lima, (2014) (20014) among them three in English: Spectacle of Races: Scientists, Institutions and Racial Theories in Brazil at the End of the XIXth Century (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1999) and The Emperors beard: D. Her main interests are History of the Slaves, Racial Theories, History of the Brazilian Empire, Academic Art, History of Anthropology.

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Full Professor in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo and Visiting Professor at Princeton. Racism, patrimonialism, violence, corruption, intolerance, and inequality stem from the mechanisms of domination inherited from the country's colonial past and long history with slavery. Lilia Schwarcz argues that authoritarianism is not a contemporary issue in Brazil. Moderator: Sidney Chalhoub, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, affiliated with Romance Languages and Literatures Speaker: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Full Professor of Anthropology, the University of São Paulo (USP) Visiting Professor, Princeton University

Brasil by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz