Race, Politics, and Education in Brazil

Brazil has undertaken affirmative action in its universities on an unprecedented scale. An expert group of international scholars puts the new policies in historical, political, and legal context; evaluates their outcomes for students and universities; and demonstrates that the policies have been successful in addressing racial inequality.

Auteur
Vera Lúcia Benedito, Brazil Dora Bertulio, Fundação Cultural Palmares Luiz Augusto Campos, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Político, Brazil Erich Dietrich, New York University, USA João Feres Junior, Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Político, Brazil Rosana Heringer, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Ollie Johnson, Wayne State University, USA Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA João Vitor Moreno, Brazil Amilcar Araujo Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Flavia Piovesan, Brazil Sales Augusto dos Santos, Faculdade Projeção, Brazil Verônica Toste, Grupo de Estudos Multidisciplinares da Ação Afirmativa

Contenu

1. Blacks in National Politics; Ollie A. Johnson III 2. From the Black Movement's Struggle to the Teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian History; Amilcar Pereira 3. Equal Opportunity Policy in Brazil: Black Activism and the State; Vera Lúcia Benedito 4. Affirmative Action from the Perspective of International Human Rights: Challenges and Possibilities from the Brazilian Experience; Flavia Piovesan 5. Affirmative Action and the Expansion of Higher Education; Rosana Heringer 6. Support for Affirmative Action among Afro-Brazilians; Gladys Mitchell-Walthour 7. Ambition with Resistance: Affirmative Action in Brazil's Public Universities; Erich Dietrich 8. Affirmative Action in Brazil: Achievements and Challenges; João Feres Júnior, Veronica Toste, and Luiz Augusto Campos 9. The Defeat of Quotas in the Passage of the Racial Equality Statute; Sales Augusto dos Santos, Dora Bertulio, and João Vitor Moreno