Race and Democracy in the Americas examines dimensions of the comparative dynamics of race and ethnicity, with a directed focus on the Americas, most particularly Brazil and the United States Acknowledgments vii Editor's Introductory Note ix Georgia A. Persons SYMPOSIUM: RACE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE AMERICAS Race and Democracy in the Americas Project 1(5) David Covin Race and Democracy in the U.S. and Brazil: The Evolution of a Program 6(25) Minion K. C. Morrison Project Conference Opening Remarks: International Cooperation on Higher Education 31(4) Jose Raymundo Martins Romeo Changing Racial Attitudes in Brazil: Retrospective and Prospective Views 35(17) Michael Mitchell ``Self-directed'' Activism between the U.S. African and Afro-Brazilian Communities: On the Nature of an Activist Relationship [A Response to Brazilian Activist Sueli Carneiro] 52(12) James Steele Comparable or Connected? Afro-Diasporic Subjectivity and State Response in 1920s Sao Paulo and Chicago 64(12) Micol Seigel Racial Intimacy and Racial Politics: Adoption in the U.S. and Brazil 76(11) Hawley Fogg-Davis Racism: A Contradiction within the Brazilian Democratic System 87(9) Gevanilda Gomes dos Santos Fear as the Commodity Blacks Own the Most: An Essay on Police Violence Against Black People and the Poor in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 96(9) Dyane Brito Race Relations among University Students in Rio de Janeiro 105(21) Luiz Claudio Barecelos Eliemla Ayres Machado Rewriting the Black Subject: ``History'' and ``Culture'' in the Black Brazilian Emancipatory Text 126(12) Denise Ferreira da Silva Racial Cycles? A Dynamic Approach to the Study of Race in Post-Revolutionary Cuba and Beyond 138(18) Mark Q. Sawyer Yesilernis Pena The Pan-African Initiative in the Americas: Culture, Common Struggle, and the Odu Ifa 156(17) Maulana Karenga Linking Two Theoretical Traditions: Toward Conceptualizing the American Racial State in a Globalized Milieu 173(13) Jarvis A. Hall AMERICAN POLITICS: LOCAL AND NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Race, Regime, and Redevelopment: Opportunities for Community Coalitions in Detroit, 1985-1993 186(20) Todd C. Shaw Presidential Impeachment, Ideology, and Party Politics: Comparing 1868 to 1999 206(24) Lorenzo Morris A TRIBUTE TO MACK HENRY JONES OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY An Assessment of the Works of Mack Jones on the Development of Black Political Science: Introduction to a Symposium 230(6) Earl Picard Reflections on Atlanta University Political Science 236(10) Adolph Reed, Jr. The Epistemological Quest of Mack Jones 246(3) Robert C. Smith Observations on the Political Thought and Methodology of Mack H. Jones 249(6) Rickey Hill The Mack Jones Legacy 255(4) Valerie C. Johnson Invitation to the Scholarly Community 259