Denise Ferreira da Silva

Denise Ferreira da Silva is a Brazilian critical race theory philosopher with an anticolonial black feminist perspective that highlights the centrality of raciality in post-Enlightenment thought. She is an academic, a relational artist, and a visual and installation artist. She is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where she also coordinates the Social Justice Institute, and has worked at a range of other academic institutions including New York University, Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, Monash University in Australia, Birkbeck, University of London, Queen Mary University of London, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, San Diego.