{"id":29445,"date":"2013-03-10T22:21:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29445"},"modified":"2013-03-10T22:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T22:21:40","slug":"challenges-to-affirmative-action-an-analysis-of-skin-color-and-verification-at-the-universidade-federal-do-parana-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29445","title":{"rendered":"Challenges to Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Skin Color and Verification at the Universidade Federal do Paran\u00e1 in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu\/UF\/00\/09\/15\/23\/00638\/Hundersmarck_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Challenges to Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Skin Color and Verification at the Universidade Federal do Paran\u00e1 in Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ufdc.ufl.edu\/jur\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Undergraduate Research<\/a><br \/>\nUniversity of Florida<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ufdc.ufl.edu\/UF00091523\/00648\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Issue 1<\/a> (Fall 2012)<br \/>\n8 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Hundersmarck<\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences<br \/>\n<em>University of Florida<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Historically, Brazilian racial identity has been constructed from a color continuum rather than discrete categories. To this end, self-identification often differs from the perception of another. In light of the newly instated affirmative action policies, many have questioned the reliability of applying concrete racial categories to a country that rose out of profound mixed ethnic and racial origins. The inclusion of a verification system has generated a serious debate on the foundation and limits of racial identity construction. <strong>How does one construct their racial identity for the purpose of affirmative action?<\/strong> What are the advantages and limitations of verifying an individual\u2019s identity? This paper analyzes the unique dual identification process that exists at the Universidade Federal do Paran\u00e1 drawing from four qualitative interviews from the Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies located within the university.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu\/UF\/00\/09\/15\/23\/00638\/Hundersmarck_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenges to Affirmative Action: An Analysis of Skin Color and Verification at the Universidade Federal do Paran\u00e1 in Brazil Journal of Undergraduate Research University of Florida Volume 14, Issue 1 (Fall 2012) 8 pages Laura Hundersmarck College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida Historically, Brazilian racial identity has been constructed from a color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,2895,21,8,26],"tags":[7123,13969,13970,5729],"class_list":["post-29445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-journal-of-undergraduate-research","tag-laura-hundersmarck","tag-universidade-federal-do-parana","tag-university-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445","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=29445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}