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

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

Carlos Moore – Salvador, Bahia

Dianne Pinderhughes – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Martha Rosa Queiros, Palmares Foundation, Brasilia

Dyane Brito Reis - University of Feira de Santana

Vilma Reis – Salvador, Bahia

Gevanilda dos Santos – Soweto, São Paulo

Mark Sawyer – University of California, Los Angeles

Denise da Silva – University of California, San Diego

Raquel Souza – University of Texas, Austin

James Steele – North Carolina A&T State University

Tonya Wilson – Clark-Atlanta University