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The Prism of Race: The Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of Michigan Press<\/a>
\n2018
\n272 pages
\n2 tables
\n6 x 9
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-472-13084-9
\nEbook ISBN: 978-0-472-12389-6
\nDOI: 10.3998\/mpub.9736376<\/a><\/p>\n

David Lehmann<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Reader in Social Science
\nCambridge University<\/em><\/p>\n

Foreword by:<\/p>\n

Antonio Sergio Guimar\u00e3es<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of S\u00e3o Paulo, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

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Brazil<\/a> has developed a distinctive response to the injustices inflicted by the country\u2019s race relations regime. Despite the mixed racial background of most Brazilians, the state recognizes people\u2019s racial classification according to a simple official scheme in which those self-assigned as black, together with \u201cbrown\u201d and \u201cindigenous\u201d (preto-pardo-indigena<\/em>), can qualify for specially allocated resources, most controversially quota places at public universities. Although this quota system has been somewhat successful, many other issues that disproportionately affect the country\u2019s black population remain unresolved, and systemic policies to reduce structural inequality remain off the agenda.<\/p>\n

In The Prism of Race<\/em>, David Lehmann explores, theoretically and practically, issues of race, the state, social movements, and civil society, and then goes beyond these themes to ask whether Brazilian politics will forever circumvent the severe problems facing the society by co-optation and by tinkering with unjust structures. Lehmann disrupts the paradigm of current scholarly thought on Brazil, placing affirmative action<\/a> disputes in their political and class context, bringing back the concept of state corporatism<\/a>, and questioning the strength and independence of Brazilian civil society.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n