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Direct linkLee, Justine H. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2021
Following months of debate in 2012, Brazilian President Rousseff signed the Quota Law establishing quotas for the percentages of Black, Brown, and indigenous public secondary school students that public universities must enroll. Guided by a social dominance theory framework, this paper examines the extent to which such a policy can challenge an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Affirmative Action, Secondary School Students
da Silva, Guilherme Henrique Gomes; Skovsmose, Ole – Power and Education, 2019
In this article, the authors interpret affirmative actions with reference to structural violence, which is accompanied by legitimizing discourses that tend to make discrimination appear natural and unquestionable. They illustrate the extension of structural violence in Brazilian society with particular reference to access to higher education. It…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Access to Education, Special Needs Students
Schwartzman, Luisa Farah; Paiva, Angela Randolpho – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2016
This paper examines how affirmative action in Brazilian public universities has evolved from the start of the new millennium up to recent years. After an overview of the existing policies in public universities, we explain these patterns based on an analysis of the processes internal and external to the universities. Although these policies were…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Race, Racial Bias, Higher Education
Oyarzún, Juan de Dios; Perales Franco, Cristina; McCowan, Tristan – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
Indigenous groups in Latin America face a double exclusion from higher education, with low levels of access to institutions and little acknowledgement of their distinctive cultural and epistemological traditions within the curriculum. This article assesses current policies in Mexico and Brazil towards indigenous populations in higher education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Higher Education, Access to Education
Kirakosyan, Lyusyena – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to address its drastic socioeconomic inequality and to compel its higher education institutions to diversify significantly while democratizing access to those schools. Brazil recently passed a sweeping affirmative action law requiring its public universities to reserve half of their available spots for…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Pedrosa, Renato H. L.; Dachs, J. Norberto W.; Maia, Rafael P.; Andrade, Cibele Y.; Carvalho, Benilton S. – Higher Education Management and Policy, 2007
This paper describes the results of a detailed study relating the performance of undergraduate students admitted to Brazil's State University of Campinas (Unicamp) from 1994 through 1997 and their socioeconomic and educational background. The study is based on a hierarchical model for the relevant variables involved. The main result is that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Disadvantaged, Program Effectiveness, Affirmative Action
