Marcelo Paixão is an Associate Professor of University of Texas at Austin where he teaches in the department of African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) and at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Research (LLILAS). Previously, he taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), at the Economic Institute (IE). White there, he was the Coordinator of the Laboratory of Economic, Historic, Social and Statistics of Race Relations (LAESER), the only one in the country that focuses on the racial inequality inside a center of study and research in Economic Sciences. Prof. Paixão was a Visting Scholar at Princeton University between 2012 and 2013. He also published, among other books and articles, “A lenda da modernidade encantada: por uma crítica ao pensamento social brasileiro sobre relações raciais e projeto de Estado-Nação” (Ed. CRV, 2014);” and ”500 anos de solidão: estudos sobre as desigualdades raciais no Brasil (Ed Appris, 2013).