Sabrina Gledhill

The author of a book comparing Brazilian and US race relations based on the lives of Booker T. Washington and Manuel R. Querino (Travessias no Atlântico Negro: reflexões sobre Booker T. Washington e Manuel R. Querino), Sabrina Gledhill recently published two edited volumes, The Need for Heroes: Black Intellectuals Dig Up Their Past, and Heroes Sung and Unsung: Black Artists in World History. Both contain essays by leading Black thinkers and authors from the US and Brazil. They are companion pieces for an anthology on the Afro-Brazilian Black vindicationist Manuel Querino, published in English and Portuguese in 2021. An award-winning translator, Gledhill's publications in that role include Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, by João José Reis, Francisco de Paula Brito: A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil, by Rodrigo Camargo de Godoi, and The Story of Rufino: Slavery, Freedom and Islam in the Black Atlantic, by João José Reis, Flávio Gomes and Marcus J. M. Carvalho. A British citizen raised in Puerto Rico who spent nearly three decades in Brazil, Sabrina Gledhill is an independent scholar with an MA in Latin American Studies from UCLA and a PhD in Ethnic (Brazilian) and African Studies from the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA).