His books include:
Ruminations on Violence (Waveland, 2008),
Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak from the Margin (Palgrave, 2011),
Cape Verde, Let's Go: Creole Rappers and Citizenship in Portugal (University of Illinois, 2015) and
Living (Il)legalities in Brazil (Routledge, 2020). He is currently finishing a book based on
Sobrevivendo no Inferno, the famous rap album by the Brazilian group Racionais MCs, forthcoming from Bloomsbury, and is also writing a collection of short stories based on anthropological fieldwork with Haitian and West African migrants in the city of São Paulo.
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