Livio Sansone, Ph.D (1992), University of Amsterdam, is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He has published on ethnicity, inequalities, ideas of race and antiracism, heritage, with research in the UK, the Netherlands, Suriname, Brazil, Italy, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau. His best known books are Blackness Without Ethnicity. Creating Race in Brazil (New York: Palgrave, 2003) and La Galassia Lombroso (2022, Laterza, Italy).

"[...] Besides making us critical of the assumptions and relationships behind how such field stations are created in the Caribbean, Sansone’s book is a significant and valued contribution to scholarship that reveals the social origins of social theory. It will send Caribbeanist anthropologists, sociologists, and linguists back to the archives [...]." - Kevin A. Yelvington, University of South Florida, in: New West Indian Guide 98 (2024), 331–430