Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Introduction
In Pursuit of Dubois' 'Second-Sight' through Diasporic Dialogues; Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
PART I: INSTITUTIONS AS GATE-KEEPERS AND GAME-CHANGERS
1. Thinking Comparatively about Black Women's Studies in the United States and Brazil: The Politics of Knowledge Production; Kia Lilly Caldwell
2. Race and Democracy in the Americas: The Project and Beyond: The Genesis of the Race & Democracy in The Americas Project; David Covin
3. Brokering Black Brazil or Fostering Global Citizenship? Global Engagement that Empowers Black Brazilian Communities; Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
4. Didn't Your Parents Like You?; Mojana Vargas
PART II: RWB: RESEARCHING WHILE BLACK AND FEMALE IN BRAZIL
5. A (Black) American Trapped in a ('Non-Black') Brazilian Body: Reflections on Navigating Multiple Identities in International Fieldwork; Tiffany Joseph
6. Guess Who's Coming to Research?: A Political Scientist's Reflections on Race, Class and Gender in Brazil; Jaira Harrington
7. But You (Don't) Look Like an African American: African Diaspora Looking Relations between Brazil and the United States; Reighan Gillam
8. Changing Notions of Blackness in Field Research in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil; Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
9. Studying Black-White Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro; Chinyere Osuji
PART III: BLACK BRAZILIANS' REFLECTIONS IN THE US: MYTH OF A RACIAL RADICAL PARADISE
10. Living the African American way of life - Impressions and disillusions of an Afro-Brazilian Lady in the USA; Daniela F. Gomes da Silva
11. Increasing Resilience to Face Diversity: Race in Academic and Social Environments from Salvador to Los Angeles; Lucio Magano
12. Far Beyond 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire' - Impressions of an Afro-Brazilian Cinematographer and Activist in Philadelphia; Gabriela Watson Aurazo
Conclusion
Toward A Future African Diasporic Approach to Research; Gladys Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour is Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA. She was the 2013-2014 Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, USA.

Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is Assistant Professor of Sociology with a joint appointment in the Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of South Florida, USA. She is a 2015-2016 Fulbright Scholar to Brazil.