SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Michèle Lamont, Graziella Moraes Silva, Jessica Welburn, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrahim, Hanna Herzog and Elisa Reis Getting Respect: Dealing with Stigmatization and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel. Princeton University Press, 2016.
• Edward.Telles and PERLA Team. Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America. University of North Carolina Press Books, 2014
  • Translated to Spanish, by Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2020
  • Translated to Portuguese by Editora UFRGS, 2021

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Graziella Moraes Silva, Veronica Toste Daflon, and Camille Giraut. "Seeing race like a state: higher education affirmative action verification commissions in Brazil." Latin American Politics and Society 66.1 (2024): 1-26.
• David Schieferdecker, Susanne Reinhardt, Jonathan Mijs, Graziella Moraes Silva, Chana Teeger, Flavio Carvalhaes & Jeremy Seekings. “Everyday conversations about economic inequality: a research agenda.” Sociology Compass, 18(9), e70001.
• Matias López, Graziella Moraes Silva, Chana Teeger and Pedro Marques. “Economic and cultural determinants of elite attitudes toward redistribution”. Socioeconomic Review V. 20, N 2 (2022): 489-514 
• Meylin Gonzales, Graziella Moraes Silva and David Sulmont. “Negotiating racial categories: Census takers understandings of the ethnoracial question in Peru” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies V. 17, N 2 (2022): 219.242
• Graziella Moraes Silva, Luciana de Souza Leão, Christina Ciocca Eller, Flavio Carvalhaes, & Thomas DiPrete (2021). Similar gaps, different paths? Comparing racial inequalities among BA holders in Brazil and the United States. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 62(5), 359-384.
• Graziella Moraes Silva, Luciana Souza Leão and Barbara Grillo. “Seeing Whites: Views from black Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro” Ethnic and Racial Studies V. 43, N. 4 (2020): 632-651. (*winner of 2020 Best Article Prize” by the Brazilian Section of the Latin American Studies Association)
• Brenna M Powell and Graziella Moraes Silva. "Technocrats’ Compromises: Defining Race and the Struggle for Equality in Brazil, 1970-2010" Journal of Latin American Studies.  V. 50, N. 1 (2018): 87-115.
• Graziella Moraes Silva and Emiko Saldivar. "Comparing Racial Mixing Ideologies in Latin America: Brazil and Mexico" Sociologia & Antropologia. V.8, N.2 (2018): 427-456.
• Graziella Moraes Silva "After racial democracy: contemporary puzzles in race relations in Brazil, Latin America and beyond from a boundaries perspective" Current Sociology v. 64 (2016), p. 794-812.
• Graziella Moraes Silva and Matias López. "Brazilian people" in the eyes of elites: repertoires and symbolic boundaries of inequality.  Sociologia & Antropologia V.5, N. 1 (2015): 157-182.

Book Chapters

• Graziella Moraes Silva, Michèle Lamont and Joshua Guetzkow “Research Questions, Research Designs and Explanations: Lessons from Getting Respect,” In: Janice D. Aurini, Melanie Heath, and Stephanie Howells. The How To of Qualitative Research, Second Edition. London: Sage, 2022, 45-49.
• Graziella Moraes Silva (with Matias López, Elisa P. Reis and Chana Teeger). “Elites’ Perceptions of Inequality: Who Supports Redistribution? Why, When and How?” IN Hujo, Katja, and Maggie Carter, eds. Between Fault Lines and Front Lines: Shifting Power in an Unequal World. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022., 2022, 151-175.
• Veronica Daflon, Silva, Graziella Moraes; Giraut, Camille. (2022), “Raça, Estado e burocracias: as comissões de heteroclassificação nas Instituições Federais de Ensino Superior”, in Flavia Rios; Luis Augusto Campos; R. G. de Lima. Raça & Estado. Rio de Janeiro, EDUERJ, 2022: 113-158.
• Graziella Moraes Silva “After Affirmative action: Redrawing color lines in Brazil” IN Hatzikidi, Katerina and Eduardo Dullo A Horizon of (im)possibilities: A Chronicle of Brazil’s Conservative Turn. University of London Press, 2021: 123-140.
• Graziella Moraes Silva “Race and Racisms: why and how to compare,” In: Solomos, John (ed) The Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms. New York: Routledge, 2020: 67-77. 
• Jaciane Milanezi and Graziella Moraes Silva “Silêncio - reagindo à saúde da população negra em burocracias do SUS” (Silence – reactions to the black population health policies among street level bureaucrats at the Brazilian Unified Health System) In: Pires, Roberto (ed) Implementando Desigualdades Reprodução de Desigualdades na Implementação de Políticas Públicas. Distrito Federal: IPEA, 2019: 441-462.

For the full list please see Prof Moraes Silva's CV