Urban Encounters: Affirmative Action and Black Identities in Brazil

237 Pages·2012·2.67 MB·English

by  André Cicalo (auth.)

Urban Encounters
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Urban Encounters
Affirmative Action and
Black Identities in Brazil
André Cicalo
URBAN ENCOUNTERS
Copyright © André Cicalo, 2012.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-33852-4
All rights reserved.
First published in 2012 by
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ISBN 978-1-349-34151-1 ISBN 978-1-137-09601-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/9781137096012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cicalo, André, 1973–
Urban encounters : affirmative action and black identities in
Brazil / André Cicalo.
p. cm.
1. Affirmative action programs in education—Brazil.
2. Blacks—Education (Higher)—Brazil.
3. Blacks—Race identity—Brazil. I. Title.
LC213.53.B6C43 2012
379.2(cid:2)60981—dc23 2012013462
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library.
Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India.
First edition: October 2012
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To Flávia
and the crowd of the seventh floor. . .
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Contents
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Toward an Ethnographic Study of Racial Quotas
for “Black” Students in the University of the State
of Rio de Janeiro 1
2 Dreams and Hard Places: Main Settings and
Socioeconomic Profile of Quota Students 21
3 Race between the Class Rows: Urban Encounters
and Dis-encounters in the Changing University Space 55
4 From Race or Color to Race and Color? Ethnography
beyond Official Discourses 91
5 Narrowing Political Gaps: Black Awareness and
University Education as Ways to Be “Central” 127
Toward a Conclusion 167
Notes 187
References 209
Index 221
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Figures, Maps, and Tables
Figures
2.1 The UERJ seen from the footbridges just outside
the tube station on Avenida Castelo Branco 22
2.2 Several interior shots of the UERJ 22
2.3 V iew of wealthy areas in Zona Sul: the encounter
between three neighborhoods—Lagoa, Ipanema,
and Leblon 27
2.4 View of the favela of Mangueira from the UERJ 28
2.5 Partial views of the Esqueleto area, before and
after its removal 29
2.6 Borders between favelas and suburban neighborhoods
are often very blurred, especially away from Zona Sul 33
3.1 A group of informants at the UERJ 59
4.1 My visualization of the possible relationship between
blackness and mestiçagem/brownness as described
by Eliane 115
4.2 Relationship between blackness and mestiçagem/
brownness as proposed by the Black movement 115
4.3 A virtual classification system that would reflect
my findings at the UERJ 122
Maps
2.1 Metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro divided by
Zones (Centro, Sul, Norte, Oeste) 24