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Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, assistant professor of public policy & political economy in the Department of Africology, was a recent guest scholar at San Diego State University, where she attended the talk \u201cThe Future of Democracy in Brazil,\u201d delivered by the country\u2019s former president Dilma Rousseff. Mitchell-Walthour also attended a private dinner with Rousseff. Now on an international tour, Rousseff allegedly broke a budgetary law while serving as Brazil\u2019s first female president. She was impeached and removed from office in August 2016.<\/p>\n

Invited guest scholars attended the event from UW-Milwaukee, the University of Michigan, Florida International University, Rutgers and other universities.<\/p>\n

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Gladys Mitchell-Walthour (fourth from left) shared a dinner with Dilma Rousseff (seated, left), former president of Brazil. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mitchell-Walthour says that Rousseff\u2019s presidency is notable for more than its abrupt ending, including the president\u2019s strong support for affirmative action policies in Brazil\u2019s federal universities, which increased access to education for the nation\u2019s Afro-Brazilian and indigenous students. Rousseff signed that legislation in 2012, and also increased funding for Bolsa Familia, a landmark social welfare program that has lifted millions of Brazilians out of poverty by increasing access to federally funded education and health resources for impoverished families and providing financial incentives to parents whose children are vaccinated and regularly attend school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that Rousseff will run for senate and remains dedicated to democracy despite what she has experienced under dictatorship and democracy is remarkable,\u201d said Mitchell-Walthour, author of \u201cThe Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil\u201d (Cambridge University Press, 2018).<\/p>\n

Brazil is one of the globe\u2019s 10 largest economies, valued at $2.9 trillion, according to current data from the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s a country that America can\u2019t ignore and it\u2019s\u00a0important that scholars, especially Brazilianists, be engaged with the current state of Brazilian politics because it has an impact on the lives of our Brazilian colleagues,\u201d said Mitchell-Walthour, who is president-elect of the Brazil Studies Association<\/a>. \u201cMore importantly, politics impacts the lives of everyday citizens, especially low-income and marginalized people, women and Afro-Brazilians who are often excluded from the polity and who are often not included in the concept of citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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