Lilia Moritz Schwarcz discussed her new biography of Lima Barreto and what it meant to write and live as a black man in a racist society. The conversation was moderated by Bryan McCann.

Speaker Biography: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is a Brazilian historian, anthropologist and professor of social anthropology at the University of São Paulo.

Speaker Biography: Bryan McCann is a professor of history at Georgetown University.

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