Brazil has developed a distinctive response to the injustices inflicted by the country’s race relations regime. Despite the mixed racial background of most Brazilians, the state recognizes people’s racial classification according to a simple official scheme in which those self-assigned as black, together with “brown” and “indigenous” (preto-pardo-indigena), 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’s black population remain unresolved, and systemic policies to reduce structural inequality remain off the agenda.
In The Prism of Race, 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 disputes in their political and class context, bringing back the concept of state corporatism, and questioning the strength and independence of Brazilian civil society.
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"This meticulously documented and rigorously argued work ... without doubt makes a major contribution to the understanding of a fundamental ideological and political shift which few had foreseen."
--- Brésils
" - Brésils
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"The Prism of Race constitutes required reading for all those who wish to further their understanding of Brazilian racial dynamics."
-- Ethnic and Racial Studies
" - Ethnic and Racial Studies
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"This book is a model for how to do an empirical political sociological study of race."
-- American Journal of Sociology
" - American Journal of Sociology
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" The Prism of Race is an excellent overview of the debates and developments around affirmative action in Brazil over the last quarter-century. Clearly written, deeply researched, and judiciously argued, the book is a balanced analysis of contentious issues by a scholar with deep experience in Brazil and strong ties to Brazilian scholars on all sides of the debates about affirmative action."
-- Journal of Latin American Studies
" - Journal of Latin American Studies
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In The Prism of Race, 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 disputes in their political and class context, bringing back the concept of state corporatism, and questioning the strength and independence of Brazilian civil society.
"
"This meticulously documented and rigorously argued work ... without doubt makes a major contribution to the understanding of a fundamental ideological and political shift which few had foreseen."
--- Brésils
" - Brésils
"
"The Prism of Race constitutes required reading for all those who wish to further their understanding of Brazilian racial dynamics."
-- Ethnic and Racial Studies
" - Ethnic and Racial Studies
"
"This book is a model for how to do an empirical political sociological study of race."
-- American Journal of Sociology
" - American Journal of Sociology
"
" The Prism of Race is an excellent overview of the debates and developments around affirmative action in Brazil over the last quarter-century. Clearly written, deeply researched, and judiciously argued, the book is a balanced analysis of contentious issues by a scholar with deep experience in Brazil and strong ties to Brazilian scholars on all sides of the debates about affirmative action."
-- Journal of Latin American Studies
" - Journal of Latin American Studies
Формат: Скан PDf
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