The Prism of Race: The Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil

by David Lehmann

Brazil has developed a distinctive response to the injustices inflicted by the country's race relations regime. Despite the mixed racial background of most Brazilians, the state recognizes people's racial classification according to a simple official scheme in which those self-assigned as black, together with "brown" and "indigenous" (preto-pardo-indigena), can qualify for specially allocated resources, most controversially quota places...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472130846
• ISBN13: 9780472130849
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"