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

Author:   Vânia Penha-Lopes
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498537803


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   06 June 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice


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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.

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Author:   Vânia Penha-Lopes
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781498537803


ISBN 10:   1498537804
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   06 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Brazil Matters: Race as a Mirror Chapter 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 References About the Author

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Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil is a masterful examination of social processes surrounding affirmative action in Brazil as they have unfolded on the ground and in real time. Indeed, this is a one-of-a kind and critical case study of individuals who are among the first university affirmative action students admitted in 2003 to the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro-Uerj), which together with the State University of Northern Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense-Uenf) pioneered the implementation of affirmative initiatives in higher education. Penha-Lopes' study will be an invaluable resource for English-reading readers, particularly comparative race scholars who focus on the Americas with an interest in race relations in Brazil and the United States. -- G. Reginald Daniel, University of California, Santa Barbara, co-editor of Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union Vania Penha-Lopes's book, Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice is a path breaking analysis of contemporary affirmative action programs in Brazilian universities. Written in a clear, accessible style, Dr. Penha-Lopes focuses on a recent cohort of graduates of one of these programs. She analyzes these students' lived experiences as well as their attitudes towards the programs and concludes that, contrary to the expectations of some of the program's detractors, these quota students, for the most part, have done as well academically as their non-quota peers. -- Maxine L. Margolis, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Florida How has Brazil attempted to overcome systematic racism through affirmative action and quota systems in admission policies to public universities? What have been the outcomes of these programs? Are they pathways to ending historic discrimination against people of indigenous and African descent? These and many other provocative questions are skillfully addressed in Vania Penha-Lopes important study of legislative efforts to address long-term forms of social and racial inequality in Brazil. Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how race is constructed and experienced in Brazil and how endemic racism is currently being challenged. -- James N. Green, Director, Brown-Brazil Initiative, Brown University, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History


Vania Penha-Lopes uses original interview material, administrative university data, and a wide range of academic research and media sources to provide a detailed picture of what affirmative action looks like in Brazil, the meanings it acquires to different local actors, and the consequences of the policies to the policy's beneficiaries, the quotistas. The most interesting material. . . offers a window into how these students understand and experience race, racism, and affirmative action. Also valuable are the book's use of administrative data to highlight quota students' performance at UERJ and its review of Brazilian research on quota students' performance in Brazilian universities more broadly, organized and made accessible to an English speaking audience here for the first time. * American Journal of Sociology * Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil is a masterful examination of social processes surrounding affirmative action in Brazil as they have unfolded on the ground and in real time...Penha-Lopes' study will be an invaluable resource for English readers, particularly comparative race scholars who focus on the Americas with an interest in race relations in Brazil and the United States. -- G. Reginald Daniel, University of California, Santa Barbara, co-editor of Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union Vania Penha-Lopes's book is a path-breaking analysis of contemporary affirmative action programs in Brazilian universities. Written in a clear, accessible style, Dr. Penha-Lopes focuses on a recent cohort of graduates of one of these programs. She analyzes these students' lived experiences as well as their attitudes towards the programs and concludes that, contrary to the expectations of some of the program's detractors, these quota students, for the most part, have done as well academically as their non-quota peers. -- Maxine L. Margolis, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Florida Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how race is constructed and experienced in Brazil and how endemic racism is currently being challenged. -- James N. Green, Director, Brown-Brazil Initiative, Brown University, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Modern Latin American History


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

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