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.

With Urban Encounters, André Cicalo has delivered a much needed work in the pressing issue of affirmative action in Brazil, about which there is a dearth in the English-language literature. His very readable book will be a welcome addition to courses on race relations, urban anthropology, Brazilian studies, and Latin American studies. (Vânia Penha-Lopes, Luso-Brazilian Review, Vol. 52 (2), December, 2015)

"Cicalo's work is highly original and is the most thoughtful treatment of university quotas in Brazil yet written. This perspective is of considerable importance because of the light it sheds on the process as it is unfolding on the ground and in real time. His ideas for policy implications are interesting and suggestive." - John Burdick, professor of Anthropology, Syracuse University

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

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'