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Estela Gonçalves de Souza

Graduate Student

Biography

I am a doctoral candidate in the History Department, certified in Chicano/Latino Studies and Women and Gender Studies. I hold my BA and MA in History from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil. My research focuses on Black Masculinities in the Brazilian pre- and post-emancipation eras, with a special focus on the city of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. In the broad implication, historicizing Black masculinities in Brazil’s post-emancipation will help to understand the complexity of t

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