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Lilia M. Schwarcz

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, a professor of anthropology at the University of São Paulo, is known in the United States as the author of _The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930_ (English edition, 1999) and _The Emperor’s Beard: Dom Pedro II and the Tropical Monarchy of Brazil_ (2004).

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