{"id":25107,"date":"2012-08-31T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T18:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25107"},"modified":"2012-08-31T19:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T19:19:11","slug":"brazil-enacts-affirmative-action-law-for-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25107","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/31\/world\/americas\/brazil-enacts-affirmative-action-law-for-universities.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-08-30<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/simon_romero\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Romero<\/a><\/strong>, Brazil Bureau Chief<\/p>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 Brazil\u2019s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere\u2019s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation\u2019s public schools and vastly increase the number of university students of African descent across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The law, signed Wednesday by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dilma_Rousseff\" target=\"_blank\">President Dilma Rousseff<\/a>, seeks to reverse the racial and income inequality that has long characterized Brazil, a country with more people of African heritage than any nation outside of Africa. Despite strides over the last decade in lifting millions out of poverty, <strong>Brazil remains one of the world\u2019s most unequal societies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrazil owes a historical debt to a huge part of its own population,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/jorgewerthein.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Werthein<\/a>, who directs the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies. \u201cThe democratization of higher education, which has always been a dream for the most neglected students in public schools, is one way of paying this debt.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But while affirmative action has come under threat in the United States, it is taking deeper root in Brazil, Latin America\u2019s largest country. Though the new legislation, called the Law of Social Quotas, is expected to face legal challenges, it drew broad support among lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Of Brazil\u2019s 81 senators, only one voted against the law this month. Other spheres of government here have also supported affirmative action measures. In a closely watched decision in April, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22911\" target=\"_blank\">the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the racial quotas enacted in 2004 by the University of Bras\u00edlia<\/a>, which reserved 20 percent of its spots for black and mixed-race students&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Brazil\u2019s 2010 census showed that a slight majority of this nation\u2019s 196 million people defined themselves as black or mixed-race, a shift from previous decades during which most Brazilians called themselves white&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/31\/world\/americas\/brazil-enacts-affirmative-action-law-for-universities.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO \u2014 Brazil\u2019s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere\u2019s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation\u2019s public schools [&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":[7010,11708,11709,2640,11707,2327],"class_list":["post-25107","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-dilma-rousseff","tag-jorge-werthein","tag-leandro-tessler","tag-new-york-times","tag-simon-romero","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25107","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=25107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}