Feminisms and Anti-Racism: Intersections and Challenges An interview with Luiza Bairros, Minister, Brazilian Secretariat of Public Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (SEPPIR), 2011–2014

Luiza Bairros is the Former Minister of the Secretary of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality in the first cabinet of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (2011–2014). Prior to this post, she served as the Secretary for the Promotion of Racial Equality in Bahia. Bairros is one of the most renowned activist-scholars of the Brazilian Black Movement, also long active in the Afro-Brazilian feminist movement.

Sonia E. Alvarez teaches Latin American politics, race and gender politics, and social movements at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she directs the Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies. Since the 1980s, she has been connected with feminist, women's, antiracist, and social justice movements in Brazil, Latin America, and globally, while conducting research on and with them.