{"id":15081,"date":"2011-07-23T23:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15081"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:32:27","slug":"who-are-the-blacks-the-question-of-racial-classification-in-brazilian-affirmative-action-policies-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15081","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Blacks? The Question of Racial Classification in Brazilian Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/schwartzman\/Schwartzman_who_are_the_blacks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Who are the Blacks? The Question of Racial Classification in Brazilian Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cahiers de la Recherche sur l&#8217;\u00c9ducation et les Savoirs<br \/>\nNumber 7 (October 2008)<br \/>\n18 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/schwartzman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luisa Farah Schwartzman<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Debates about racial classification and its agreement with the uses of \u201crace\u201d and \u201ccolor\u201d in everyday life have been central to the discussion about affirmative action in Brazil. Using quantitative and qualitative data regarding the relationship between socio-economic status and racial identification in Brazilian universities, this paper investigates how particular kinds of policies may have different impact in terms of which particular \u201ckinds\u201d of individuals are benefited. I argue that both the labels that are used and the socio-economic limits that are imposed may have significant and not always intuitive consequences for which individuals are admitted, and for how contestable their eligibility will become. The label <em>negro<\/em>, when used as the sole criterion for admissions, may be too restrictive and exclude \u201cdeserving\u201d non-whites from these policies. On the other hand, because potential non-whites from higher socio-economic classes are more likely to come from \u201cmulti-racial\u201d families, the absence of a socio-economic criterion may lead to a substantial number of candidates who may feel that they can lay claims to a wide range of racial labels, not all of which may be acceptable to policy designers and scrutinizers concerned with restricting eligibility for quotas to \u201cdeserving\u201d candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/individual.utoronto.ca\/schwartzman\/Schwartzman_who_are_the_blacks.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the Blacks? The Question of Racial Classification in Brazilian Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education Cahiers de la Recherche sur l&#8217;\u00c9ducation et les Savoirs Number 7 (October 2008) 18 pages Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Assistant Professor in Sociology University of Toronto Debates about racial classification and its agreement with the uses of \u201crace\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8,26,394],"tags":[6972,6970,3019,6971],"class_list":["post-15081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-cahiers-de-la-recherche-sur-leducation-et-les-savoirs","tag-luisa-f-schwartzman","tag-luisa-farah-schwartzman","tag-luisa-schwartzman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}