Nara Roberta Silva
@nararoberta.bsky.social
Brazilian social theorist, transnational scholarship | Core Faculty & Praxis Program Head at Brooklyn Institute for Social Research | Supporting people’s power | she/her
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Nara Roberta Silva, Ph.D.
www.nararobertasilva.com
My website is officially live ✨📚✊🏾
Discover my work as an educator, writer, and program builder -- rooted in social justice, critical thinking, and transformation. Collaborators, students, organizers, and curious readers are all welcome!
www.nararobertasilva.com
Discover my work as an educator, writer, and program builder -- rooted in social justice, critical thinking, and transformation. Collaborators, students, organizers, and curious readers are all welcome!
www.nararobertasilva.com
Bolsonaro’s arrest on a Saturday morning — I wonder what my friends are planning just now…
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November 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Bolsonaro’s arrest on a Saturday morning — I wonder what my friends are planning just now…
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Excited to wrap up the year with a seminar on Race, Caste, and Capitalism @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We’ll explore race & global capitalism w/ Oliver Cromwell Cox’s work as our guide. Join me to rethink inequality, hierarchy, and democracy for our times.
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Race, Caste, and Capitalism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
What explains the persistence of racial inequality, throughout time and across the most diverse societies? For much of the 20th century, the predominant assumption in the United States was that race f...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Excited to wrap up the year with a seminar on Race, Caste, and Capitalism @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We’ll explore race & global capitalism w/ Oliver Cromwell Cox’s work as our guide. Join me to rethink inequality, hierarchy, and democracy for our times.
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Another course alert -- it’s a busy month... I’m leading a 4-week online seminar on one of the most important books ever, Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social. Just a few seats remain; check it out and don't miss out thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Promised “40 acres and a mule,” Black people were for the most part left empty-handed after the abolition of slavery—and, what’s more, made to blame for what generations of U.S. historians saw as the ...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Another course alert -- it’s a busy month... I’m leading a 4-week online seminar on one of the most important books ever, Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction in America, @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social. Just a few seats remain; check it out and don't miss out thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Excited to lead a course on postcolonial theory and the afterlives of empire @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social this October. Four weeks of reading, debate, and reflection -- in person, in Brooklyn. Check out the link to learn more and enroll! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Imperial Entanglements: an Introduction to Postcolonial Theory (In-Person) - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Having several origins—from literary studies to Marxist historiography to anti-colonial thought itself—postcolonial theory examines marginality, difference, migration, slavery, servitude, identity, ra...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Excited to lead a course on postcolonial theory and the afterlives of empire @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social this October. Four weeks of reading, debate, and reflection -- in person, in Brooklyn. Check out the link to learn more and enroll! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
50+ years on, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains essential. I’ll be unpacking it -- alongside a few of his articles and lectures -- in my @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social online course. Starting soon, with only a few seats left -- join me!
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Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Walter Rodney was, in his own words, a guerrilla intellectual. Knowledge should be used not only in service of the working poor, but also to help build a vast international spectrum of movements for e...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
50+ years on, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa remains essential. I’ll be unpacking it -- alongside a few of his articles and lectures -- in my @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social online course. Starting soon, with only a few seats left -- join me!
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A lot has happened in Brazil over the past few days. My new piece for @publicseminar.bsky.social explores the political constraints of Lula’s third term -- how austerity continues to shape the present and why the conjuncture demands more than compromise.
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Lula 3.0 and the Austerity Trap - Public Seminar
Halfway through his third term, Brazilian president Lula da Silva’s popularity is declining. Nara Roberta Silva asks why.
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July 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
A lot has happened in Brazil over the past few days. My new piece for @publicseminar.bsky.social explores the political constraints of Lula’s third term -- how austerity continues to shape the present and why the conjuncture demands more than compromise.
publicseminar.org/2025/07/lula...
publicseminar.org/2025/07/lula...
I had the pleasure of joining @rafkhach.bsky.social for a convo on 20 years of Brazilian politics -- from the Workers’ Party and the Pink Tide, through the 2013 protests and Bolsonaro’s rise, to Lula’s current term and the Left’s contradictions in power. mitchellcenter.libsyn.com/episode-72-b...
The Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast: Episode 7.2: Brazil's Pink Tide and the Politics of Redistribution
In this episode, host RAFAEL KHACHATURIAN speaks with sociologist and political theorist NARA ROBERTA SILVA about the trajectory of Brazil’s left over the past two decades. Together, they unpack the r...
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June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I had the pleasure of joining @rafkhach.bsky.social for a convo on 20 years of Brazilian politics -- from the Workers’ Party and the Pink Tide, through the 2013 protests and Bolsonaro’s rise, to Lula’s current term and the Left’s contradictions in power. mitchellcenter.libsyn.com/episode-72-b...
Soccer matches are rain or shine events everywhere else in the world 🤷🏾♀️ #FIFAClubWorldCup
June 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Soccer matches are rain or shine events everywhere else in the world 🤷🏾♀️ #FIFAClubWorldCup
It’s that time of year, folks: let’s take on the challenge of thinking through Cedric Robinson’s concepts of racial capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition in all their complexity -- in June online or in person in NYC @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social ;)
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Racial Capitalism: Race, Class, and the Black Radical Tradition - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
“Racial capitalism” is a concept that has become central to contemporary radical movements, from Black Lives Matter and the prison abolition movement to movements for climate justice. For Cedric Robin...
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June 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It’s that time of year, folks: let’s take on the challenge of thinking through Cedric Robinson’s concepts of racial capitalism and the Black Radical Tradition in all their complexity -- in June online or in person in NYC @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social ;)
🔗 thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Don't follow European soccer so regularly. But I gotta say I got really impressed by this young man today...
Desire Doue became the third teenager to score in the UEFA Champions League final.
In the 63rd minute, he helped himself to another before Luis Enrique substituted him to rapturous applause from the PSG fans.
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In the 63rd minute, he helped himself to another before Luis Enrique substituted him to rapturous applause from the PSG fans.
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May 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Don't follow European soccer so regularly. But I gotta say I got really impressed by this young man today...
I have lots of opinions about this.
Carlo Ancelotti has been appointed as head coach of the Brazil national team and will start work on May 26.
The 65-year-old Italian will leave Real Madrid after their final game of the La Liga season against Real Sociedad.
More from @david-ornstein.bsky.social ⬇️
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The 65-year-old Italian will leave Real Madrid after their final game of the La Liga season against Real Sociedad.
More from @david-ornstein.bsky.social ⬇️
🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/633...
May 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I have lots of opinions about this.
Join me this May at @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social for a deep dive into social death, the afterlives of slavery, and enduring structures of racial domination. We’ll read Patterson, Hartman, and others -- come!
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Slavery and Social Death: From the Plantation to the 21st Century
What does it mean to experience social death? And how has this experience impacted the legacies of slavery in the 21st century? Beyond legal categories of ownership and personal status and structures ...
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April 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Join me this May at @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social for a deep dive into social death, the afterlives of slavery, and enduring structures of racial domination. We’ll read Patterson, Hartman, and others -- come!
thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Racial Capitalism: Race, Class, and the Black Radical Tradition | June BISR Online Courses | buff.ly/MPiwfMj
April 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Racial Capitalism: Race, Class, and the Black Radical Tradition | June BISR Online Courses | buff.ly/MPiwfMj
My website is officially live ✨📚✊🏾
Discover my work as an educator, writer, and program builder -- rooted in social justice, critical thinking, and transformation. Collaborators, students, organizers, and curious readers are all welcome!
www.nararobertasilva.com
Discover my work as an educator, writer, and program builder -- rooted in social justice, critical thinking, and transformation. Collaborators, students, organizers, and curious readers are all welcome!
www.nararobertasilva.com
Nara Roberta Silva, Ph.D.
www.nararobertasilva.com
April 15, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My website is officially live ✨📚✊🏾
Discover my work as an educator, writer, and program builder -- rooted in social justice, critical thinking, and transformation. Collaborators, students, organizers, and curious readers are all welcome!
www.nararobertasilva.com
Discover my work as an educator, writer, and program builder -- rooted in social justice, critical thinking, and transformation. Collaborators, students, organizers, and curious readers are all welcome!
www.nararobertasilva.com
Join me this April for another seminar
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We'll dive deep into Du Bois’s Souls and its lasting impact on the discussions about race, identity, belonging, democracy, and liberation -- graciously hosted by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We'll dive deep into Du Bois’s Souls and its lasting impact on the discussions about race, identity, belonging, democracy, and liberation -- graciously hosted by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk and Beyond (In-Person)
In this course, we’ll relate The Souls of Black Folk to Du Bois’ previous studies and his struggles against imperialism and colonialism?
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April 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Join me this April for another seminar
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We'll dive deep into Du Bois’s Souls and its lasting impact on the discussions about race, identity, belonging, democracy, and liberation -- graciously hosted by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! We'll dive deep into Du Bois’s Souls and its lasting impact on the discussions about race, identity, belonging, democracy, and liberation -- graciously hosted by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
I'm so excited to bring back this course at
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social in April! We’ll dive into how nonprofits intersect with state power, governance, capitalism, and social movements. Only a few spots left -- join me! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social in April! We’ll dive into how nonprofits intersect with state power, governance, capitalism, and social movements. Only a few spots left -- join me! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex: Between the Market and the State
How exactly should we understand the layer of “non-profit” institutions that proliferate in many capitalist societies, existing somewhere between the formal worlds of business and government? What are...
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March 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I'm so excited to bring back this course at
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social in April! We’ll dive into how nonprofits intersect with state power, governance, capitalism, and social movements. Only a few spots left -- join me! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
@brooklyninstitute.bsky.social in April! We’ll dive into how nonprofits intersect with state power, governance, capitalism, and social movements. Only a few spots left -- join me! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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The Non-Profit Industrial Complex: Between the Market and the State | April BISR Online Courses | buff.ly/bnTUsAv
March 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Non-Profit Industrial Complex: Between the Market and the State | April BISR Online Courses | buff.ly/bnTUsAv
"Prisoners" still hits hard. 40 years later, some pages feel like they were written just yesterday. Can’t wait to dive into it with fresh eyes and urgent questions. A few seats left -- join me @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
Mike Davis: Prisoners of the American Dream
Written in the aftermath of Ronald Reagan’s 1984 re-election, Mike Davis’s Prisoners of the American Dream asks a question that remains as urgent today as it was 40 years ago: Why has the American wor...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Prisoners" still hits hard. 40 years later, some pages feel like they were written just yesterday. Can’t wait to dive into it with fresh eyes and urgent questions. A few seats left -- join me @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
And… two months later, Bolsonaro is indeed indicted 💅🏾
The investigation has been ongoing for several months, and the arrest of a general is a clear indication that the evidence is solid — too much to risk… Bolsonaro is certainly on the chopping bloc, potentially next... 2/
February 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
And… two months later, Bolsonaro is indeed indicted 💅🏾
I'm back in the classroom tonight with this one! The class is full, but I invite you to check out @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social’s course catalog—there is lots of good stuff starting this week and coming up soon! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing: an Introduction to Marx
In this course, we will explore how Marx developed this “ruthless criticism” over the course of his life as a scholar, journalist, and activist.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I'm back in the classroom tonight with this one! The class is full, but I invite you to check out @brooklyninstitute.bsky.social’s course catalog—there is lots of good stuff starting this week and coming up soon! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...
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Fernanda Torres is the second Brazilian to be nominated for Best Actress at the #Oscars
The first was her own mother, Fernanda Montenegro.
The first was her own mother, Fernanda Montenegro.
January 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Fernanda Torres is the second Brazilian to be nominated for Best Actress at the #Oscars
The first was her own mother, Fernanda Montenegro.
The first was her own mother, Fernanda Montenegro.