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Race and Democracy

Race and Democracy Project in the Americas: Brazil and the United States:

“The Race and Democracy in the Americas Project,” a collaborative research program with Afro-Brazilian scholars is one of NCOBPS' many ventures. Co-sponsored conferences were held on racial politics in the United States and Brazil. Planning and preliminary work on the project was enabled by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The National Political Science Review, Volume 9: 2003, features select articles from this project.

The principal objectives of the project are:

To foster collaborative, cross-national research projects on race and politics in the United States and Brazil, focusing on African-descended populations, involving NCOBPS members and Afro-Brazilian social scientists on each project
To deliberately develop the work as interdisciplinary
To develop cross-national mentor relationships between junior and senior scholars
To encourage junior Afro-Brazilian scholars to study political science
To encourage higher education leaders to recognize the fruitfulness of such collaborative, cross-national patterns of generating and conducting original research
To highlight for Brazilian political and higher educational leaders the importance of increasing the number of Afro-Brazilians admitted to colleges and universities, as well as to advanced degree programs

Project Members and Affiliations:

Luiza Bairros – Federal University of Bahia

Lindinalva Barbosa – Palmares Foundation, Bahia

Luiz Barcelos – Deputy to Congressional Deputy Luiz Alberto in Brasilia

Vera Benedito – Federal University of Bahia

Sueili Carneiro – Geledes, São Paulo

David Covin – California State University, Sacramento

Silvio Cunha – Catholic University of Salvador

Hawley Fogg Davis – University of Wisconsin, Madison

Taynar Ferreira – Salvador, Bahia

Ollie Johnson – Wayne State University

Michael Mitchell – University of Arizona