(Re)considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)texts by Antonio Tillis, ed. New York: Peter Lang 2011.

Abstract

Doris Gilliam graduated from Florida State University in Tallahassee in May 2013. Her degree is in Interdisciplinary Humanities with an emphasis on race and class in Latin America. Her dissertation explores contested identities in the works of Miriam Alves, Esmeralda Ribeiro and Conceicão Evaristo. She is a Spanish Professor at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina.