[5] Hanchard's first book, Orpheus and Power: Afro-Brazilian Social Movements in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, was published in 1994[6] and arose out of his PhD dissertation work.
[7] With archival and research interview methods, the book used neo-Gramscian reasoning to argue that inequality and racism in Brazil persist because of deliberate efforts to prevent the development of racial group identifications there.
[9] In 2018, Hanchard published The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy, which argues that contemporary trends towards racism and xenophobia have in fact always been visible in exclusionary policies that are historically ingrained in democratic practices.
[7] Hanchard was a 2014-2015 member of the School of Social Science at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study.
[1] Hanchard's work has been cited in media outlets like The Nation,[14] NPR,[15] New Statesman,[16] and The New Republic.