Urban Encounters [electronic resource] : Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil /
Cicalo, A.author.
Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Toward an Ethnographic Study of Racial Quotas for "Black" Students in the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro; 2 Dreams and Hard Places: Main Settings and Socioeconomic Profile of Quota Students; 3 Race between the Class Rows: Urban Encounters and Dis-encounters in the Changing University Space; 4 From Race or Color to Race and Color? Ethnography beyond Official Discourses; 5 Narrowing Political Gaps: Black Awareness and University Education as Ways to Be "Central"
Toward a ConclusionNotes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-220) and index.
Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space.
Ethnology—Latin America.
International education .
Comparative education.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Sociology, Urban.
Latin American Culture.
International and Comparative Education.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Social Anthropology.