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	<title>Wide Angle &#187; affirmative action</title>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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The University of Brasilia's affirmative action process is about to enter a crucial week. Students who have identified themselves as Afro-Brazilian must pose for a photograph that will be evaluated by a secret committee. This panel will try to determine whether students look "black enough" to qualify for the quota system.]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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To participate in the University of Brasilia's quota program, applicants must do something most have never been required to do -- identify themselves as black.]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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Iolanda dos Santos and her family moved to Brasilia from a poor region of northeast Brazil. She is currently undecided whether or not she should apply to the university under the racial quota system. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Discussion Guide Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affirmative action]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[American style affirmative action is coming to Brazil, a country that has long seen itself as a colorblind society. WIDE ANGLE follows the lives of four students from diverse backgrounds competing to win a coveted spot at the elite University of Brasilia, where 20 percent of the incoming freshmen must qualify as Afro-Brazilian. Brazil has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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Seventeen-year-old Josie de Souza is one of almost 23,000 students taking this year's entrance exam for the University of Brasilia. She hopes to be one of those admitted under its new racial quota system. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Discrimination and Affirmative Action in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Edward E. Telles
Download the PDF here.


photo credit: Ademir Rodrigues

In 2001, on the heels of the United Nations Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa, several Brazilian institutions established race-based affirmative action for the first time ever in that country. Affirmative action represented a major step in Brazil's process of democratization and nation-building, which ran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Vocabulary and Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/lessons/brazil-in-black-and-white/vocabulary-and-resources/4555/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the PDF here.


Vocabulary
affirmative action: efforts to improve the opportunities of minority groups and women

cultural identity: belonging to a particular ethnic or cultural group

elite: a small group that is considered socially superior

level the playing field: increase fairness by giving everyone the same opportunities

miscegenation: racially mixed marriages or relationships

mixed heritage: multiracial ancestry

quota: a limited part or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Themes and Video Segments</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 

photo credit: Liana Fraifeld
Themes
EDUCATION: Even though Brazil sees itself as a colorblind society, racial discrimination is a fact of life there. The country is attempting to remedy this through affirmative action programs like the one at the University of Brasilia, a prestigious public university.
GLOBAL ISSUES: Brazil is trying to promote racial equality by [...]]]></description>
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