Description
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. Edited By Ollie A. Johnson III and Rosana Heringer 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 Lcia 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; Joo Feres Jnior, 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 Joo Vitor Moreno
