Alexandre Da Costa

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Term Adjunct,  Global Development Studies
PhD (Development Sociology) Cornell

Curriculum Vitae  (PDF 504KB)

Research Interests:

Comparative Race and Ethnicity; Knowledge, Power, and Politics; Coloniality/Decoloniality; Cultural Politics; Multiculturalisms; Brazil, Latin America, and Canada

 My research and teaching bring together the sociology of race and ethnicity, the sociology of development, and a focus on the African Diaspora to treat ‘race’ as a world historical category deeply constitutive of the political-economic, epistemological, and cultural processes underlying capitalist development. I examine the intersections of race and development to understand how particular racial formations and challenges to inequality express broader processes and geographies of power that shape racialized experiences of global capitalism. My research accounts for ‘race’ as a constitutive analytical category to the reproduction of hierarchy, exclusion, and inequality within ‘development’. At present, I am completing a single-authored book manuscript that foregrounds culture, knowledge, and epistemology as a significant locus of Black Brazilian contestation of dominant development paradigms and state policy.

 I am developing a new research project that focuses on cultural, racial, and material questions surrounding multicultural education policies in Brazil and Canada. In addition, my writing aims to contribute to new understandings within contemporary theory of how difference shapes being, becoming, and development.

Term Adjunct
Cultural Studies

DEVS 495/805: Race and Development

CUST 803:Cultural Studies Historiography

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