Livio Sansone, Ph.D (1992), University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He has published on ethnicity, inequalities, ideas of race and antiracism, heritage, with research in the UK, the Netherlands, Suriname, Brazil, Italy, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau. His best known books are Blackness Without Ethnicity. Creating Race in Brazil(New York: Palgrave, 2003) and La Galassia Lombroso(2022, Laterza, Italy).