Silvio Almeida

Almeida was born in São Paulo and is the son of couple Verônica and Lourival.{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2015/10/1697963-mortes-o-centroavante-que-virou-goleiro.shtml|title=Mortes: O centroavante que virou goleiro|website=Folha de S. Paulo|language=pt|first=Fernanda|last=Pereira Neves|date=24 October 2015|accessdate=4 January 2023|url-access=subscription}} His father was a football goalkeeper and was popularly known as Barbosinha in his career and as player of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista.{{cite web|url=https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/futebol/ultimas-noticias/2020/06/23/meu-pai-herdou-estigma-sobre-goleiros-negros-diz-jurista-silvio-almeida.htm|title='Meu pai herdou estigma sobre goleiros negros', diz jurista Silvio Almeida|website=UOL Esporte|language=pt|date=23 June 2020|accessdate=4 January 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://terceirotempo.uol.com.br/que-fim-levou/barbosinha-do-timao-531|title=Que fim levou: Barbosinha, do Timão|website=Terceiro Tempo|language=pt|accessdate=4 January 2023}}

Almeida has a Bachelor of Laws at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (1995–1999) and of Philosophy at University of São Paulo (2004–2011). He is Master of Political and Economical Laws at Mackenzie University and Doctor of Philosophy and General Theory of Laws at University of São Paulo.{{cite web|url=https://enciclopediajuridica.pucsp.br/autor/290/silvio-luiz-de-almeida|title=Silvio Luiz de Almeida|website=Enciclopédia Jurídica da PUCSP|language=pt|accessdate=4 January 2023}}

Almeida is married to Edneia Carvalho and has a daughter.

Silvio Almeida has been a lawyer since 2000, working with business law, economical and tax law and human rights law.

From 2005 to 2019, he was professor of Philosophy of Laws and Introduction to the Study of Law at São Judas Tadeu University.{{cite web|url=https://kope.org/professores/silvio-almeida/|title=Silvio Almeida|website=KOPE|language=pt|accessdate=4 January 2023}}

He is currently professor of the graduation course of Law and post-graduation stricto sensu in Political and Economical Law at Mackenzie Presbyterian University and professor at the Business Administration School and Law School of Getúlio Vargas Foundation.

In 2020, Almeida was a visiting professor at Duke University, in the United States.{{cite web|url=https://igs.duke.edu/about-mellon-visiting-professor/spring-2020-dr-silvio-luiz-de-almeida|title=Spring 2020: Dr. Silvio Luiz de Almeida|website=Duke University|accessdate=4 January 2023}} At Duke, he taught courses in "Race and the Law in Latin America" and "Black Lives Matter: Brazil and United States", the last one in partnership with professor John D. French.

In 2022, he was selected as Edward Larocque Tinker visiting professor at Columbia University, in New York City, destined to prestigious intellectuals of Latin America.{{cite web|url=https://www.brasil247.com/mundo/silvio-almeida-e-contratado-como-professor-visitante-de-columbia|title=Silvio Almeida é contratado como professor visitante de Columbia|website=Brasil 247|language=pt|date=3 June 2021|accessdate=4 January 2023}} This same seat was occupied in previous years by intellectuals such as economist Raúl Prebisch, geographer Milton Santos, journalist Elio Gaspari, jurist {{ill|Roberto Gargarella|es}}, historian Lilia Schwarcz, among others.{{cite web|url=https://ilas.columbia.edu/past-tinker-visiting-professors|title=Past Tinker Visiting Professors – Institute of Latin American Studies|website=Columbia University|accessdate=4 January 2023}} In Columbia, he administered the class of "Race, Law and Culture in Latin America".

On 22 June 2020, Almeida was interviewed in Roda Viva, on TV Cultura. His participation inspired a "book club" on social networks.{{cite web|url=https://www.uol.com.br/ecoa/ultimas-noticias/2020/06/23/autores-citados-por-silvio-almeida.amp.htm|title='Roda Viva' com Silvio Almeida inspira 'clube do livro' nas redes|website=Ecoa UOL|language=pt|first=Diana|last=Carvalho|date=23 June 2020|accessdate=4 January 2023}}

He is currently Chair of Luiz Gama Institute, a human rights organization focused in juridical defense of minorities and popular issues. Almeida actively acted in the creation of the "Pro-quotas Front" and was one the creators of affirmative action policies that were implemented in the state of São Paulo.

In 2021, he was rapporteur of the Jurists Commission of the Chamber of Deputies for the presentation of legislative proposals, specially focused on structural racism.

In 2020, he became columnist of politics on the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo,{{cite web|url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/silvio-almeida/|title=Colunista: Silvio Almeida|website=Silvio Almeida|language=pt|accessdate=4 January 2023}} acting suspended due to his nomination as one of the coordinators for the transition team of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

In his works, Almeida works with concepts of authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and György Lukács. In his texts, he talks about issues such as law, politics, philosophy, political economy and racial affairs. He was responsible for popularizing the concept of structural racism (proposed since the first racial critical studies in the 1960s), in which racism is conceived as arising from the own society structure. In his book, which is titled after his concept, Almeida applies this issue in many subjects, such as law, ideology, the economy and politics.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LyqsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46|title=Racismo Estrutural|publisher=Pólen Livros|language=pt|author=Silvio Almeida|year=2019|isbn=9788598349916}}

On 22 December 2022, Almeida was announced as Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship of the third Lula administration,{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2022/12/22/silvio-almeida-e-anunciado-por-lula-como-ministro-dos-direitos-humanos.ghtml|title=Silvio Almeida é anunciado por Lula como ministro dos Direitos Humanos|website=G1|language=pt|first1=Luiz Felipe|last1=Barbiéri|first2=Alexandro|last2=Martello|first3=Ana Paula|last3=Castro|date=22 December 2022|accessdate=4 January 2023}} assuming office on 1 January 2023.{{cite web|url=https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2023/01/02/ministros-de-lula-assumem-pastas-em-brasilia.ghtml|title=Ministros de Lula assumem pastas em Brasília; saiba como foi|website=G1|language=pt|date=2 January 2023|accessdate=4 January 2023}} On September 6, 2024, Silvio Almeida was fired from his government position following several accusations of sexual harassment against women,{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-human-rights-minister-faces-sexual-harassment-accusations-2024-09-06/|title=Sexual harassment accusations down Brazil's human rights minister|website=Reuters|language=en|date=6 September 2024|accessdate=7 September 2024}} including racial equality minister Anielle Franco.{{Cite web |date=2024-09-07 |title=Brazil's Lula fires minister accused of sexual harassment |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240906-brazil-s-lula-fires-minister-accused-of-sexual-harassment |access-date=2024-09-07 |website=AP News |language=en}}

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