Race, politics, and education in Brazil : affirmation action in higher education /

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Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Description:x, 247 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10377928
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Other authors / contributors:Johnson, Ollie A., 1962- editor.
Heringer, Rosana, editor.
ISBN:9781137485144
1137485140
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Blacks in National Politics
  • Appendix 1.1. Afro-Brazilian Deputies by Legislature, State, Party, and Color (1999-201.5)
  • Appendix 1.2. Afro-Brazilian Senators by Legislature, State, Party, and Color (1983-2015)
  • Appendix 1.3. Brazilian Political Parties
  • 2. From the Black Movement's Struggle to the Teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian History
  • 3. Equal Opportunity Policv in Brazil: Black Activism and the State
  • 4. Affirmative Action from the Perspective of International Human Rights: Challenges and Possibilities from the Brazilian Experience
  • 5. Affirmative Action and the Expansion of Higher Education in Brazil
  • 6. Afro-Brazilian Support for Affirmative Action
  • 7. Ambition with Resistance: Affirmative Action in Brazil's Public Universities
  • 8. Affirmative Action in Brazil: Achievements and Challenges
  • 9. The Defeat of Quotas within the Racial Equality Statute
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index