{"id":22843,"date":"2012-05-01T18:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T18:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22843"},"modified":"2012-05-04T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:20:11","slug":"brazils-top-court-backs-racial-quotas-in-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22843","title":{"rendered":"Brazil&#8217;s top court backs racial quotas in universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/higher-education\/brazils-top-court-backs-racial-quotas-in-universities\/story-e6frgcjx-1226342912305\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil&#8217;s top court backs racial quotas in universities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><br \/>\n2012-05-01<\/p>\n<p>BRAZIL&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that racial quotas used in universities are constitutional and are meant to redress inequalities stemming from centuries of slavery.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling issued by the 10-member court concerned the case of the University of Brasilia which in 2004 set up quotes to reserve 20 per cent of admissions to black, mixed-race and indigenous students&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The court ruling followed an appeal lodged in 2009 by the right-wing DEM party which argued that the University of Brasilia quota policy ran counter to the principle of equality and fostered racism by creating privileges based on racial criteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But the judges countered that quotas were a legitimate method to redress slavery-derived inequalities and discrimination that still continues to affect Afro-Brazilians&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/higher-education\/brazils-top-court-backs-racial-quotas-in-universities\/story-e6frgcjx-1226342912305\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s top court backs racial quotas in universities The Australian 2012-05-01 BRAZIL&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that racial quotas used in universities are constitutional and are meant to redress inequalities stemming from centuries of slavery. The ruling issued by the 10-member court concerned the case of the University of Brasilia which in 2004 set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,2895,21,1467,6,26],"tags":[10613,3421],"class_list":["post-22843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-law","category-new-media","category-politics","tag-the-australian","tag-university-of-brasilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843","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=22843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}