Madalitso Zililo Phiri is a critical pan-African Sociologist who is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg’s, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. He is currently working on a book manuscript building on his doctoral dissertation tentatively ‘The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations’ under contract with Brill. The manuscript centres the quotidian encounters of the historically oppressed “Black underclass” within these two countries’ social policy architectures, tracing how those contexts have been shaped both by racial capitalisms and historical constructions of hierarchical citizenships.