Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil (eBook)

University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice

Vania Penha-Lopes (Autor)

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2017
188 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3779-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book focuses on a critical case study of the first students to graduate from university in Brazil under an affirmative action program of racial and social quotas. It places the students’ educational trajectories at the center of the debate about racial inequality and the need to eradicate it.

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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.

Autor

Vânia Penha-Lopes is professor of sociology at Bloomfield College.

Inhalt

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Why Brazil Matters: Race as a MirrorChapter 1. History in the Making: The Implementation of Affirmative Action in Brazil Chapter 2: The Students Chapter 3: University Quotas and Racial Identity Chapter 4. Attitudes about the Quotas Policies Chapter 5. An Overview of the Performance of Quota Students at Brazilian Universities Conclusion: The Future of Affirmative Action in Brazil ReferencesAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Tables.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Brazil • Brazilian Studies • Latin American Studies • Race • Race relations • race studies • racial identity • Racial Justice • Racial Quotas • Social Inequality • Social Justice • University Quotas
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3779-0 / 1498537790
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3779-7 / 9781498537797