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Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice

Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice

Penha-Lopes, Vânia

Hardcover

General EducationGeneral SociologySouth American History

ISBN10: 1498537804
ISBN13: 9781498537803
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 6 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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