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.

Autorentext
André Cicalo is Post-Doctoral at Freie Universität, Germany

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Toward an Ethnographic Study of Racial Quotas for 'Black' Students in the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro Dreams and Hard Places: Main Settings and Socioeconomic Profile of Quota Students Race Between the Class Rows: Urban Encounters and Dis-Encounters in the Changing University Space From Race or Color to Race and Color? Ethnography beyond Official Discourses Narrowing Political Gaps: Black Awareness and University Education as Ways to be 'Central'