Episode 30: Vânia Penha-Lopes - Affirmative Action in Brazil

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English - February 27, 2020 07:00 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Brazil's heavily integrated society and lack of historical segregation make addressing inequality between light and dark skinned Brazilian's difficult, and yet the data indicates they exist.

Vânia Penha-Lopes, Professor of Sociology at Bloomfield College and author of "Confronting Affirmative Action in Brazil: University Quota Students and the Quest for Racial Justice" discusses the challenges of implementing affirmative action in Brazil, and what lessons we might learn from it in the United States.