Urban encounters
Subtitle: affirmative action and black identities in Brazil
By: André Cicalo
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780230338524
Subjects: Education (Higher); Race identity; Blacks; EDUCATION / Multicultural Education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; Affirmative action programs in education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)
Description: "In this work, I discuss the introduction of racial quotas in favor of 'black' students in some public universities of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The implementation of racial policies has raised strong reaction in a country like Brazil, where ideals of racial and cultural mixture are crucial components of national identity. Focusing on my ethnographic study of a public university and its users, I analyze the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space. Due to the variety of users that racial and other social quotas have produced, the ethnography allows for a broader discussion of race and class relations in Rio de Janeiro and in Brazil"--