About
Jaime Alves, Associate Professor and Vice Chair. Professor Alves is an Anthropologist, freelance journalist, and activist-scholar whose research focuses on policing, abolition, and urban coloniality in Latin America. He has authored The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) and is finishing an ethnography on the poetics of black fugitivity in a Colombian city. His journalistic writings have appeared in alternative news outlets in the US, Brazil, and Colombia.