*Artwork by Grupo Opni (São Paulo, Brazil)

Publications

Books
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​2016 - Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil, University of Illinois Press
*Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2017 Errol Hill Award (American Society for Theatre Research)

         Reviews: 
              2018, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Jean Muteba Rahier
              2018, The Black Scholar, Geísa Mattos
​              2017, Luso-Brazilian Review, Cristina F. Rosa
              2017, Emisférica, Maya Berry
Edited Special Journal Issues

​2016 - “Sorrow as Artifact: Black Radical Mothering in Times of Terror”, Transforming Anthropology, 24(1) 
                                                                 
                                                                         [*Podcast for the special issue] ​


Journal Articles and Essays

2018 - "Lingering Trauma in Brazil: Police Violence Against Black Women", NACLA Report on the Americas, Special Issue: Women Rising in the Americas, 50(4): 369-376 - Selected as one of the editors' top picks for 2018

2017 - "Battling Anti-Black Genocide in Brazil", NACLA Report on the Americas, Special Issue: #BlackLivesMatter Across the Hemisphere, 49(1): 41-47

​2016 - "Towards a Black Feminist Model of Black Atlantic Liberation: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento", Meridians, 14(2): 71-87
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2016 - "Facing the Dragon: Black Mothering, Sequelae and Gendered Necropolitics in the Americas", Transforming
Anthropology, 24(1): 31-48

2016 - "Sorrow as Artifact: Radical Black Mothering in Times of Terror -- A Prologue", Transforming
Anthropology, 24(1): 5-7

2015 - "A Escrita ‘Uterina Preta’ de Mjiba: Elizandra Souza and the New Black Female Poets of Brazil", Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Travesia, 24(3): 405-415

2015- "Performance, Affect, and Anti-Black Violence: A Transnational Perspective on #BlackLivesMatter", Cultural Anthropology, #BlackLivesMatter: Anti-Black Racism, Police Violence, and Resistance (Hotspot)

2015 -  "Blackness, Citizenship, and the Transnational Vertigo of Violence in the Americas", American Anthropologist 117(2):384–387

2014 -  “Putting Prostitutes in Their Place: Black Women, Social Violence and the Brazilian Case of Sirlei Carvalho”, Latin American Perspectives, 41(1): 107-123 

2013 -  “Strange Fruit: Necropolitics and the Transnational Resonance of Torture and Death”, Souls 15(3): 177-198

2008 - “Scenarios of Racial Contact: Police Violence and the Politics of Performance and Racial Formation in Brazil,” E-Misférica (5.2)
 

Book Chapters

2015 - "A Iluminação Poética de Beatriz Nascimento", Todas [as] distâncias: poemas, aforismos, e ensaios de Beatriz Nascimento, Alex Ratts and Bethânia Gomes org., Salvador, Bahia: Editora Ogum's Toques Negros.     

2015 -  “Between Soapboxes and Shadows: Activism, Theory and the Politics of Life and Death in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil”, Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research, Bernd Reiter and Ulrich Oslender eds., East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

2014 -  Smith, C. A. “O Corpo Coletivo da Mulher Negra.” Desde as Amazônias: Colóquios. Eds. Gerson Rodrigues de Alberquerque & Maria Antonieta Antonacci. Nepan Editora, 2014: 33-54.

2009 - “Strategies of Confinement: Environmental Racism, Police Terror and the Built Environment in Brazil.” in Environmental Justice in the New Millennium: Global Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and Human Rights, Filomina Steady, ed. Pp. 93-114. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan
 

Op-Eds

2018 - Smith C. and Caldwell, K., Muse, W., Paschal, T., Perry, K., Williams E., “On The Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Response to the Assassination of Marielle Franco”, The Black Scholar, March 23, 2018, 
 
Smith, C.  and Berry, D. “Package Bombings Reveal the Racist Underbelly of Austin”, The
Huffington Post, March 16, 2018 
 
Smith, C. “The Fallout of Police Violence is Killing Black Women Like Erica Garner”, The Conversation, January 4 2018, [re-published by PBS Newshour]
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2016 - "Slow Death: Is the trauma of police violence killing black women?", The Conversation, July 12 

2016 - "The Dangerous Game of Mourning the Dead: Police Violence and the Black Community in Brazil", Truth Out, March 3

2015 - "The Crisis of Citizenship in the Dominican Republic", Jet Magazine, June 22

2015 - "Mayweather Blues: Why #Blackwomenslivesmatter", Women's E-News, May 7

2015 -  "America's Willful Ignorance of Our History of Lynching Feeds Racial Hatred", The American Prospect, March 18

2015 - "Charlie Hedbo: We Must Grieve the Dead Without Misconstruing Racism as Democratic Ideal", Truth-Out, January 9

2014 - "Scalise Scandal Rooted in Secret Societies' Hold on Paths to Power -- Through Violence", The American Prospect, January 6

2014 - “Beyond Drinking from Water Fountains and Riding Buses, Black People Have a Right to Survive”, Huffington Post, November 25,

2014 - “Black Community Crisis: Police Violence in Brazil", Truth-Out, November 20, 

2014 -  “Misplaced ID Teaches Voting Rights Lesson in Texas”, The Chicago Reporter, November 10,

2014 - “Issues of race, gender and class helped Rousseff win another term in Brazil”, Global Post, October 31

2014 -  “For Claudia Silva Ferreira: Death and the Collective Black Female Body”, The Feminist Wire, May 5, 

2013 - “An Open Love Note to My Son: On Mourning, Love and Black Motherhood”, The Feminist Wire, July 14