Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil

By André Cicalo

Book Overview

Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards. Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349341517
• ISBN13: 9781349341511
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"