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U of T s Andrea Allen studies the invisible Black women of Brazil’s LGBTQ community Andrea Allen, an assistant professor of anthropology, has spent her professional life researching marginalized people in Brazil, particularly Black women in the LGBTQ community (photo courtesy of Andrea Allen)
Andrea Allen has spent her professional life researching marginalized people in Brazil – a country known for racial, cultural, sexual and religious diversity, but which also suffers from economic inequality and intolerance.
The assistant professor in the University of Toronto’s department of anthropology and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science has taken a particular interest in Black women in Brazil’s LGBTQ community. Allen’s 2015 book