Angela Figueiredo

Angela Figueiredo is a professor in the Social Sciences Department of the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia in Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil (CAHL – UFRB) and in the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies (POSAFRO) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador, Bahia Brazil. She has produced two documentaries: Ebony Goddess (Deusa do Ébano – 2004) and Dialogues with the Secret (Diálogos com o Sagrado – 2013). As a photographer she created and curated the Global African Hair exhibition that was shown in several sites across Brazil. She has published the following books: New Black Elites (Novas elites de cor – 2002), Black Middle Class (Classe média negra – 2012), Black Beauty (Beleza Negra – 2016), and a great many articles on Black feminism in Brazil, including on decolonial Black feminist epistemology.