The Collaborative Study of Race in the Americas: Team Building in the 21st Century

This project was developed by a group based in the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS). Its purpose is to bring together a group of scholars from the United States and Brazil to initiate a long term interdisciplinary, cross-national, collaborative program to study the transectional nature of racial politics in the Americas, focusing on African-descended populations. The instant part of the program is intended to join scholars in a series of working groups, both in the U.S. and Brazil. The working groups will use ongoing collaborative projects as the base for designing and initiating new research projects, as well as implementing strategies to obtain continuing external support. The workshops will begin in the fall of 2018, continue through the March, 2019 NCOBPS meeting, and conclude during the fall of 2019 at Florida International University. The proposal is modeled after the highly successful Race & Democracy in the Americas Project as updated for the present era.

Read more about the Collaborative Study of Race in the Americas Conferences

US-Based  TEAM

Danielle Clealand, Florida Atlantic University

David Covin, California St. University-Sacramento

Minion K. C. Morrison, University of Delaware, PI

Ollie Johnson, Wayne State University

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee

Minion K. C. Morrison, University of Delaware, PI

Dianne Pinderhughes, University of Notre Dame

James Steele, North Carolina A & T University

Kathie Stromile Golden, Mississippi Valley State University

Dalila Fernandes de Negreirios, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

 

BRAZIL-Based TEAM

Paulo Barreto, Federal University of Bahia*

Silvio Humberto, University of Feira de Santana

Cleber Juliao, State University of Bahia

Cloves Oliveira, Federal University of Bahia

Maristela Rosa da Silva, Federal University de Juiz de Fora*

Edilza Sotero, Federal University of Bahia

Raquel de Souza, Independent Scholar

* Independent of APSA grant

 

FORMAL CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES OF PARTICIPANTS

 

Papers

  • Paulo Barreto. “Visual culture of privileges, ways of looking and (in)visibility of black bodies in Brazilian contemporary society.”
  • Edilza Sotero, “The color of politics: Political Traditions and Black Movements in Brazil (1945-1955).”
  • Raquel de Souza, “Ethnographic Notes from a War Zone: Surviving and Resisting.”
  • Cloves Oliveira, “The new Bahian enigma: electoral preferences and ethnic vote in the city of Salvador, Bahia – Brazil (1985-2016). Why did Black Rome never elect a black mayor?
  • Silvio Humberto, “Black Protagonism and Parliament.”
  • Maristela Rosa da Silva, Federal University de Juiz de Fora,* “Anti-Black Voting in the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election.”**
  • Dalila Fernandes de Negreirios, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, “Afro-Brazilian Studies: A Panorama of the Field.”
  • Ivanilda Amado Cardoso, “The Construction of Brazilian Black Identity through Communication and Media.”**
  • John Thomas, “The Politics of Black Inclusion in Ecuador and Peru.”**
  • Danielle Clealand, “Political Inclusion and Inclusion of Afro-Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico”
  • Marcus Johnson, “Electoral Discrimination: The Relationship Between Skin Color and Vote Buying in Latin America.”
  • Dianne Pinderhughes, “Black Women as Elected Officials”

 

Conference Section Leaders

  • Danielle Clealand, “Afro-Latino Politics.”

 

Panel Leaders/Discussants

  • David Covin, “The Collaborative Study of Race in the Americas.”
  • Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, “Black Media in Race, Education, and Anti-Black Voting in Brazil”
  • Minion K. C. Morrison, “Race and Racismo in Latin America”
  • Ollie Johnson, “Race and Racismo in Latin America”
  • Danielle Clealand, “New Dialogues and Directions in the Study of Afro-Latino Politics”

 

Plenary Sessions

  • Minion K. C. Morrison
  • Danielle Clealand
  • Cloves Oliveira

 

NCOBPS Fiftieth Anniversary Honorees

This annual meeting represented the 50th anniversary of NCOBPS. Former Presidents of the organization were special honorees. Four members of the RDA team have served as President of the organization:

  • Dianne Pinderhughes, 1988-1989
  • Kathie Stromile Golden, 1996-1997 (also current Executive Director)
  • Minion K. C. Morrison, 1998-1999
  • David Covin, 2003-2005

PIs: KC Morrison, (University of Delaware), David Covin (California State University, Sacramento)