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Celina de Sá is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as an affiliated faculty member in African and African Diaspora Studies. Her research centers on performance, race, and grassroots social networks in West Africa. She is currently under contract with Duke University Press for her book titled 'Diaspora Displacement: Race, Performance, Belonging in West Africa', which examines the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira and contemporary dynamics of racial self-making in relation to coloniality in Dakar, Senegal. Professor de Sá teaches courses focused on social difference, postcolonial urban life, popular culture, and migration, contributing to the academic discourse on these critical subjects. Her classes include 'Postcolonial Performance', 'Anthropology of Migration', and 'Coloniality in West Africa', among others, providing students with an in-depth understanding of the complexities of race and migration in various contexts.
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