Geísa Mattos de Araújo Lima
Geísa Mattos
Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5400490322782974
Research group at CNPq: dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/0998267555659152
Orcid: 0000-0002-2707-8700
Professor of the Graduate Program in Sociology and the Department of Social Sciences at the Federal University of Ceará. She leads the research group Center for Studies in Race and Intersectionalities (NERI) at CNPq.
She researches race relations and racism from a comparative perspective. In 2015, she completed a postdoctoral internship at the City University of New York (2015-2016), analyzing the connections between the Black Lives Matter movement and anti-racist movements against police violence in Brazil. Since 2019, she has dedicated herself to Critical Elite Studies, understood in its intersectional dimensions of race and class in Brazil, and more specifically in Ceará. She furthered her studies on Whiteness in Latin America, working in partnership with Professor Ana Ramos-Zayas (Yale University), both co-teaching courses at the PPGS-UFC and as a Visiting Researcher at Yale (Dec 2019 – Mar 2020). She coordinates the project “Elites in Fortaleza and Latin American Cities,” which received Fulbright funding in 2023 and 2024 and brought professors Hugo Ceron-Anaya (Lehigh University) in 2023 and Carmen Martinez-Novo (University of Florida) in 2024 to the PPGS-UFC.
The consolidation of these international research partnerships in studies on Whiteness in Latin America led her to become part of the Red de Investigación Blanquitudes (Whiteness Research Network), which brings together dozens of researchers on the topic based in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Recently published articles, books, and book chapters:
MATTOS, Geísa; SANTIAGO, Sevy. “Somos todos pardos?” Autoclassificação, heteroclassificação racial e políticas de ação afirmativa no Ceará. Caderno CRH, [S. l.], v. 38, p. e025007, 2025. DOI: 10.9771/ccrh.v38i0.60346. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/crh/article/view/60346.
MATTOS, Geísa; BARROS, Euvaldo. “Autocrítica da branquitude no Instagram”: limites e possibilidades de um movimento. CAOS. Revista Eletrônica de Ciências Sociais, v. 2, p. 27- 48, 2024. Disponível em: file ///Users/geisamattos/Downloads/6-matos-et-al-autocrtica-diagramado-2.pdf
MATTOS, Geísa; PORFIRIO, Tamis e CASTRO, Bruno (org.). Autobiografias racializadas: exercícios para o letramento racial no Brasil. Belo Horizonte, Letramento, 2023. MATTOS, Geísa. Aprendendo sobre relações raciais com histórias de vida em sala de aula. IN: MATTOS, Geísa; PORFIRIO, Tamis e CASTRO, Bruno (org.). Autobiografias racializadas: exercícios para o letramento racial no Brasil. Belo Horizonte, Letramento, 2023 MATTOS, Geísa. O Luxo da Aldeia: a produção social de lugares da branquitude em Fortaleza. Revista Eletrônica Espaço Acadêmico (Online), v. 21, p. 28-40, 2022. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/EspacoAcademico/article/view/60198
MATTOS, Geísa; ACCIOLY, Izabel. Tornar-se negra, tornar-se branca e os riscos do “antirracismo de fachada” no Brasil contemporâneo. Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies (Print), v. 16, p. 1-12, 2021. Citações: 4 |3 Disponível em: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17442222.2021.2015950?tab=permissions&sc
BOWEN, Larnies A. ; LEGROS, Ayanna ; PASCHEL, Tianna; MATTOS, Geísa ; CRUZ, Kleaver; HOOKER, Juliet. A Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Activism. NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS (1993), v. 49, p. 25-35, 2017. Disponível em: https://nacla.org/2017-03-20-hemispheric-approach-contemporary-black-activism/
MATTOS, Geísa. Flagrantes de racismo: imagens da violência policial e as conexões entre o ativismo no Brasil e nos Estados Unidos. Revista de Ciências Sociais (UFC), v. 48, p. 185- 217, 2017. Disponível em: https://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/27904
MATTOS, Geísa. Apresentação Dossiê Raça e Racismo em uma Perspectiva Global. Revista de Ciências Sociais (UFC), v. 48, p. 12-17, 2017. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufc.br/revcienso/article/view/19506
MATTOS, Geísa. From Favelas to Fergurson, Renewed Solidarities for Racial Justice Take Hold. NACLA REPORT ON THE AMERICAS (1993), v. 49, p. 30-32, 2017. Disponível em https://www.academia.edu/40205084/From_Favelas_to_Ferguson_Renewed_Solidarities_for_Racial_Justice_Take_Hold
