Urban Encounters
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Urban Encounters

Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil

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Urban Encounters

Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil

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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.

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Year
2012
ISBN
9781137096012

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Toward an Ethnographic Study of Racial Quotas for ā€œBlackā€ Students in the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
  10. 2 Dreams and Hard Places: Main Settings and Socioeconomic Profile of Quota Students
  11. 3 Race between the Class Rows: Urban Encounters and Dis-encounters in the Changing University Space
  12. 4 From Race or Color to Race and Color? Ethnography beyond Official Discourses
  13. 5 Narrowing Political Gaps: Black Awareness and University Education as Ways to Be ā€œCentralā€
  14. Toward a Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. References
  17. Index