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Historian and anthropologist Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, one of the most important scholars of racial issues in Brazil, has just released “Images of Whiteness – The Presence of Absence”. She reads visual representations, ranging from painting to advertising, and shows that, unlike blackness — a movement of self-affirmation — whiteness is a kind of “self-denial”: it operates invisibility because, after all, it is a place of power. However, it leaves a culture of discrimination stamped on everything it produces. Follow the fascinating conversation about her most recent book, her vast work and the formation of Brazil, with its miseries and wonders.