ADVISOR

Professor Daniel Domingues da Silva

Violeta Barrientos Nieto is a graduate student interested in Black intellectual thought in twentieth-century Brazil and Lusophone Africa. Before coming to Rice University, she completed a B.A. in Latin American Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, where she first engaged with the history of Brazil. She earned her degree with a thesis titled “The Ethnic Dimension of Socio-Spatial Segregation in the City of São Paulo: Historical Trajectory and Contemporary Experiences.” She also holds an M.A. in International History from CIDE, where she wrote her dissertation, “The Racialization of Democracy: Brazilian Perspectives on the Cold War.” Her broader interests include African Diaspora Studies in Latin America and feminism.