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

Vânia Penha-Lopes

doi:10.5771/9781498537797

Summary

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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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright Year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-3780-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-3779-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 175
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1 History in the Making No access Pages 17 - 40
2 The Students No access Pages 41 - 58
3 University Quotas and Racial Identity No access Pages 59 - 82
4 Attitudes Toward the Quota Policies No access Pages 83 - 102
5 An Overview of the Performance of Quota Students at Brazilian Universities No access Pages 103 - 128
Conclusion No access Pages 129 - 152
References No access Pages 153 - 170
Index No access Pages 171 - 174
About the Author No access Pages 175 - 175