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José Lingna Nafafe
José Lingna Nafafe is senior lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone studies, co-director of teaching for Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American studies and co-director of the MA in Black humanities at the University of Bristol. His academic interests embrace a number of inter-related areas, linked by the overarching themes of: Lusophone Atlantic African diaspora, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Portuguese and Brazilian history; slavery and wage-labour, 1792–1850; race, religion and ethnicity; Luso-African migrants’ culture and integration in the Northern (England) and Southern Europe (Portugal and Spain); ‘Europe in Africa’ and ‘Africa in Europe’; and the relationship between postcolonial theory and the Lusophone Atlantic. He was programme director of the MA in Black humanities at the University of Bristol. He has in press his second monograph with the title Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in September 2022.
Contact: University of Bristol, Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, Faculty of Arts, 17 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TE, UK.