Melanie Medeiros

MA, Ph.D, University of Arizona

BA, American University

BOOKS:

Medeiros, M.A. and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, eds. 2023. Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Medeiros, M.A. and Jennifer Guzmán, eds. 2023. Ethnographic Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2018. Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women’s Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:

Perry, Keisha-Khan Y., and M.A. Medeiros. 2023. “Introduction.” In Black Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Critical Research and Perspectives, edited by Melanie A. Medeiros and Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, 1-17. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2023. “A Marriage without Fidelity is a House without a Foundation’: Black Brazilian Women’s Demands for Respect in Marriage.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 28(2): 121-130. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12656

Medeiros, M.A., and Jennifer Guzmán. 2023. “An Ethnographic Approach to Studying Latin America and the Caribbean.” In Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Collection, edited by Melanie A. Medeiros and Jennifer Guzmán, 15-26. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2023. “Emotional Intimacy and the Black Matrifocal Family in Northeast Brazil.” Feminist Anthropology 4(1): 78-90. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12113

Medeiros, M.A. 2022. “Rejecting Remarriage: Respectability & Black Brazilian Women’s Decisions to ‘Opt Out’ of Marriage.” In Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World, edited by Dinah Hannaford and Joanna Davidson, 104-120. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, Series: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts.

Medeiros, M.A. 2022. “Intersectionality and Normative Masculinity in Northeast Brazil.” Gendered Lives, Global Issues, edited by Nadine Fernandez and Katie Nelson, 170-189. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. https://milneopentextbooks.org/gendered-lives-global-issues/

Medeiros, M.A., Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, James Kale. 2021. “Barbie e Ken Cidadãos de Bem: Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil.” Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil after the Pink Tide, edited by Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell, 218-231. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
——In Portuguese: Medeiros, M.A., Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, James Kale. 2022. “Barbie e Ken Cidadãos de Bem: Memes e Participação Política entre Estudantes Universitários no Brasil.” Em Democracia Precária: Etnografias de Esperança, Desespero e Resistência no Brasil, editado por Alvaro Jarrín, Karina Biondi, Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Mitchell, e Lucia Cantero, 397-420. São Paulo, BR: Zouk Editora.

Medeiros, M.A., J. Guzmán. 2020. Im/migrant Farmworker Deportability Fears and Mental Health in the Trump Era: A Study of Polimigra and Contramigra in New York State.” Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment 42(2): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12254

Guzmán, J., M.A. Medeiros. 2020. “Damned if You Drive, Damned if You Don’t: Meso-level Policy and Im/migrant Farmworker Tactics under a Regime of Immobility.” Human Organization 79(2): 14-149. https://doi.org/10.17730/1938-3525.79.2.130

Guzmán, J.R., M.A. Medeiros, G. Falkner. 2020. “Teaching Im/migration Through an Ethnographic Portrait Project.” Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal 3(1): 37-45. https://doi.org/10.5070/T33146968

Medeiros, M.A., T. Henriksen. 2019. “Forms of Capital, Employment and Whiteness in Northeast Brazil’s Ecotourism Industry.” Latin American Research Review 54(2): 366-380. https://doi.org/10.25222/larr.573
——Abridged and revised as “Structural Racism and Occupational Segregation in Northeast Brazil’s Ecotourism Industry” for Insights on Latin America and the Caribbean: An Ethnographic Collection, edited by M.A. Medeiros and J. Guzmán, 429-440. Toronto, CA: University of Toronto Press.

Jennifer R. Guzmán, J.R., M.A. Medeiros. 2019. “An Unlikely Cause: The Struggle for Driver’s Licenses to Prevent Family Separation.” Practicing Anthropology 41(1): 3-7. https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.41.1.3

Medeiros, M.A., J. Guzmán. 2016. “Ethnographic Service Learning: An Approach for Transformational Learning.”Teaching Anthropology 6(1): 66-72. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v6i0.426

Nichter, M., M.A. Medeiros. 2015. “Critical Anthropology for Global Health: What Can It Contribute to Critical Health Psychology?” In Critical Health Psychology, edited by M. Murray. Pp. 291-307. London: Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Medeiros, M.A. 2014. “The Other End of the Bargain: the Socioeconomics of Gender Relations and Marital Dissolution in Rural Northeast Brazil.” Transforming Anthropology 22(1): 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/traa.12032

M. Hingle, M. Nichter, M.A. Medeiros, S. Grace. 2013. “Texting for Health: The Use of Participatory Methods to Develop Healthy Lifestyle Messages for Teens.” Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 45(1): 12-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2012.05.001