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Michael Hanchard Ph.D.
Princeton University
Associate Professor; comparative politics and racial politics.

Professor Hanchard is author of Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988 (Princeton University Press, 1994) and Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 1988). His current project "Afro-Modernity: Race, Transnationalism and the African Diaspora" is a comparative analysis of the transnational political movements involving black political actors in the United States, Ghana, and Jamaica from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. 

[e-mail: mgh223@northwestern.edu]