ABSTRACT
The "Race and Democracy in the Americas Project" has come to fruition. Dr. Jose Raymundo Martins Romeo, a physicist by training, is president of Santa Ursula University in Rio de Janeiro and chair of the Latin American Council of the International Association of University Presidents. Dr. Jarvis Hall presents a theory about the relationship between the modern American state and the system of domination that defines race relations in the United States. Dr. Minion K. C. Morrison's consideration is masterful, not only because he reconstructs the whole history of the project, but also because he comments substantively about the scholarship which informs it. Micol Seigel's comparative project looks into the deep connections between Afro-Brazilians and African-descended people in the US Mark Sawyer grounds his study in a daring and imaginative theoretical proposition denoting conditions which facilitate changes or stability in race-based regimes.
