Prof. Denise Ferreira da Silva
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Prof. Denise Ferreira da Silva

Denise Ferreira da Silva is a professor at the University of British Columbia, where she also directs the Social Justice Institute. Her academic writing and artistic practice address the ethical questions of the global present, and target the metaphysical and ontoepistemological dimensions of modern thought. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007) and editor, with Paula Chakravartty, of Race, Empire, and The Crisis of the Subprime (2013).