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'Back to Black provides a compelling explanation for the recent increase in the number of Brazilians who have self-identified as black. De Micheli employs a wealth of qualitative and quantitative evidence to show that the increasing educational access of poor Brazilians has reshaped their identities by increasing their exposure to information and social networks. Self-identified blacks, in turn, have tended to vote consistently for leftist candidates. The book is a model of clear writing and rigorous scholarship and has important implications for other Latin American countries, particularly given the rising educational levels across the region.' Raul Madrid, Professor, University of Texas, Austin 'In Back to Black, David De Micheli convincingly documents Brazil's surge in non-white racial identification and asks how this counter-intuitive 'reclassification reversal' occurred. His persuasive argument is that egalitarian social policies interact with and challenge racial hierarchies in ways that promote politicized group consciousness - even in a context of significant racial fluidity like Brazil. Evidence from multiple sources - including interviews, extensive field work, original survey experiments, administrative and survey data - demonstrates how massive state-led educational expansion produced a cascade of (unplanned) consequences that activated black and brown identities and transformed how these identities map onto politics. This groundbreaking contribution helps set a new agenda for comparative race and ethnic politics research, placing ethnoracial group formation at the center of our understandings of political contestation in Latin America.' Jana Morgan, Professor, University of Tennessee

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David De Micheli is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah. He was previously Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research at Tulane University. De Micheli's research has appeared in World Politics, Government and Opposition, and Latin American Politics and Society.

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