Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

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Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of South Florida. Her research explores how racial hierarchies shape socialization processes in Black Brazilian families. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families (The University of Texas Press), and the co-editor of Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the US and Brazil with Gladys Mitchell-Walthour (Palgrave). As a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil and with support from the Ruth Landes Memorial Fund, she is completing a new book on the contemporary slave-like exploitation of informally adopted children and women (filhas de criação) in Brazil.

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