| Legalizing identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s northeast JH French Univ of North Carolina Press, 2009 | 354 | 2009 |
| Mestizaje and Law Making in Indigenous Identity Formation in Northeastern Brazil: “After the Conflict Came the History” JH French American Anthropologist 106 (4), 663-674, 2004 | 93 | 2004 |
| Rethinking police violence in Brazil: unmasking the public secret of race JH French Latin American Politics and Society 55 (4), 161-181, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| Buried alive: imagining Africa in the Brazilian northeast JH French American Ethnologist 33 (3), 340-360, 2006 | 66 | 2006 |
| Dancing for land: law-making and cultural performance in northeastern Brazil JH French PoLAR 25, 19, 2002 | 55 | 2002 |
| A tale of two priests and two struggles: liberation theology from dictatorship to democracy in the Brazilian northeast JH French The Americas 63 (3), 409-443, 2007 | 45 | 2007 |
| The power of definition: Brazil's contribution to universal concepts of indigeneity JH French Ind. J. Global Legal Stud. 18, 241, 2011 | 18 | 2011 |
| Os quilombos e seus direitos hoje: entre a construção das identidades e a história JH French Revista de História, 45-68, 2003 | 15 | 2003 |
| Repensando a violência policial no Brasil: Desmascarando o segredo público da raça JH French Revista Tomo, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Ethnoracial identity, multiculturalism, and neoliberalism in the Brazilian Northeast JH French Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies and Politics at the …, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| The rewards of resistance: Legalizing identity among descendants of índios and fugitive slaves in northeastern Brazil JH French Duke University, 2003 | 11 | 2003 |
| Brazil's Profit Remittance Law: Reconciling Goals in Foreign Investments JH French Law & Pol'y Int'l Bus. 14, 399, 1982 | 11 | 1982 |
| Ethnoracial land restitution: Finding Indians and fugitive slave descendants in the Brazilian Northeast JH French The Rights and Wrongs of Land Restitution, 143-160, 2008 | 10 | 2008 |
| Race, racism, and affirmative action in Brazil and the United States JH French Latin American Research Review 56 (4), 988-997, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Ethnoracial identity in a neoliberal age: government recognition of difference in northeast Brazil JH French Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America, 101-113, 2009 | 7 | 2009 |
| Performing slave descent: cultural heritage and the right to land in Brazil JH French Cultural heritage and human rights, 106-131, 2007 | 6 | 2007 |
| At play in the field of law: symbolic capital and foreign attorneys in LL. M. programs JH French Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 22 (1), 95-103, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
| A tale of two priests: three decades of liberation theology in the Brazilian northeast JH French Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, 2006 | 4 | 2006 |
| Personal encounters with the work of Laura Nader JH French Law & Society Review 39 (4), 957-964, 2005 | 2 | 2005 |
| Racial revolutions: Antiracism and Indian resurgence in Brazil JH French Hispanic American Historical Review 84 (2), 372-373, 2004 | 2 | 2004 |
