G Mitchell-Walthour

Biographic Data

ID30128
NAMEG Mitchell-Walthour
GIVEN NAMESG
FAMILY NAMEMitchell-Walthour
SIGNATUREMITCHELL-WALTHOUR G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
ORCID0000-0001-8239-9227
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS23
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • Digital Voter Mobilization Strategies of a Black Woman-Led Organization in Brazil

    Open AccessG Mitchell-WalthourARTICLEThe Journal of Race Ethnicity and…2026

    This article examines the Rio-based nonpartisan organization, the Marielle Franco Institute’s digital strategies to appeal to Afro-Brazilian voters. The literature reveals that most Afro-Brazilian voters do not vote along racial lines. However, scholarship also reveals that politicians make racial appeals to Afro-Brazilian voters. I argue that the MFI uses digital media to mobilize Afro-Brazilian voters to support progressive political candidates…

  • Black Quilmbola Women’s Leadership and Social Justice in Brazil

    Open AccessIvonete Da Silva Lopes, G Mitchell-Walthour et al.ARTICLEJournal of Black Studies2025References: 28

    Quilombolas are those community members that have remained on the land of quilombos or the land in which maroon communities lived. Quilombolas constitute a Black ethnic-racial group historically linked to resistance against oppression since the period of enslavement. This resistance, especially as exercised by women remains in contemporary Brazilian society. Despite facing adverse socioeconomic conditions, racism, gender oppression, and class ine…

  • Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery

    Open AccessG Mitchell-WalthourARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2024

  • Afro-descendant women Bolsa Familia and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Brazil and the United States

    Open AccessG Mitchell-Walthour, Fernanda Barros Dos SantosARTICLECultural Dynamics2022References: 46

    We examine the impact of class and racial discrimination on Afro-descendant women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil and the USA. We focus on the cities Salvador, São Paulo, Charlotte, and Milwaukee. We find that in all these cities, more than a majority of social welfare beneficiaries ate dark skinned thus showing that both countries are pigmentocracies where disadvantage is based on skin color, class, and gender. We find that of those admit…

  • Afro-Brazilian Women YouTubers’ Use of African-American Media Representations to Promote Social Justice in Brazil

    Open AccessG Mitchell-WalthourARTICLEJournal of African American Studies2020References: 7

  • Color discrimination, occupational prestige, and skin color in Brazil

    Nolan Kopkin, G Mitchell-WalthourARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2020Cited by: 2References: 41

    Existing literature pertaining to discrimination in Brazil often uses education and income as measures of class, but seldom includes occupational prestige. In this study, we examine whether those in different occupations acknowledge skin color discrimination differently. Based on existing literature, the expectation was that individuals in high status occupations would be more likely to acknowledge skin color discrimination. However, to the contr…

  • Economic Pessimism and Racial Discrimination in Brazil

    Open AccessG Mitchell-WalthourARTICLEJournal of Black Studies2017

    When studying Black politics, Brazil is an important country to consider because of its large Afro-descended population, its history of slavery, and persistent racial and economic inequality. In this article, I examine the role perceptions of racial discrimination play on the economic well-being of the Black Afro-Brazilian population. I test the hypothesis that, as Afro-Brazilians’ perceptions of racial discrimination increase, the more likely it…

  • Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race

    G Mitchell-WalthourARTICLESocial Forces2017

    In Tiffany Joseph’s book Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race, she examines Brazilian migrants’ racialized experiences in the United States and how these experiences impact the way they understand race in Governador Valadares (GV), Brazil. GV has a history of relations with the United States, as Americans lived in the city during World War II. GV has the highest number of Brazilians migrating to the United St…

  • Reimagining black difference and politics in Brazil from racial democracy to multiculturalism

    G Mitchell-WalthourARTICLEEthnic and Racial Studies2016References: 2

  • Framing race and class in Brazil: Afro-Brazilian support for racial versus class policy

    Kristine Kay, G Mitchell-Walthour et al.ARTICLEPolitics Groups and Identities2015Cited by: 5References: 14

    Because of the strong correlation between race and class in Brazil, it has been difficult for scholars to assess the degree to which either provides Brazilians with politically relevant identities. The impacts of race and class are compared with a priming experiment using Afro-Brazilian subjects. The results indicate that subjects identifying as blacks are more responsive than non-black subjects to racial primes, resulting in stronger support for…

  • Choosing Blackness in Brazil's Racialized Democracy: The Endogeneity of Race in Salvador and São Paulo

    G Mitchell-Walthour, William DarityARTICLELatin American and Caribbean…2014Cited by: 16References: 32

    Racial identity is endogenous and should be considered a dependent variable in many contexts. Relying on quantitative methods, we examine why some Afro-Brazilians in Salvador and São Paulo choose black identities despite prevailing negative stereotypes in Brazilian society. Our first hypothesis, based on a survey conducted in 2008, is that those Afro-Brazilians with darker skin, higher socioeconomic status, greater experiences with discrimination…