Urban encounters affirmative action and black identities in Brazil

"In this work, I discuss the introduction of racial quotas in favor of 'black' students in some public universities of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The implementation of racial policies has raised strong reaction in a country like Brazil, where ideals of racial and cultural mixture ar...

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Main Author: Cicalo, André 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hampshire, UK Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Toward an ethnographic study of racial quotas for "black" students in the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
  • Dreams and hard places : main settings and socioeconomic profile of quota students
  • Race between the class rows : urban encounters and dis-encounters in the changing university space
  • From race or color to race and color? : ethnography beyond official discourses
  • Narrowing political gaps : black awareness and university education as ways to be "central."