Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil
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Race
Race Relations
Race Studies
Racial Identity
Racial Justice
Racial Quotas
Social Inequality
Social Justice
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University Quotas
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- ISBN 9781498537803
- Weight: 467g
- Dimensions: 162 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Using affirmative action to decrease racial inequality is the latest chapter of a long tradition of comparing Brazil and the United States with regard to race. Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice is timely for both countries as they struggle with racial justice in higher education. This book responds to the United States’ dismantling of affirmative action programs and a belief that they have run their course. Data show that, while affirmative action policies have contributed to a significant increase in the representation of non-Whites in the U.S. middle class, other segments of the population have yet to take full advantage of such policies. In Brazil, this book engaged with the need to understand the first results of a public policy expected to promote major social change, as it represents the first time that country admitted the existence of racial inequality in its core and took measures toward combating it despite any subsequent controversy or dissent.
Vânia Penha-Lopes is professor of sociology at Bloomfield College.
