Abstract

The year 2012 is a landmark for Brazilian affirmative action policies in higher education. In April, Brazil’s Supreme Court approved the quota system as constitutional. In August, President Dilma Rousseff signed new legislation reserving quotas for public high school students, black students, and indigenous students in all federal universities. Academic researchers and anti-racist activists generally agreed that these changes happened in a short time span, considering the extensive previous history of the denial of racism and racial inequalities in Brazil.

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