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Affirmative Action in Brazil: How Students' Field of Study Choice Reproduces Social Inequalities
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Dias Lopes, Alice – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This paper aims to understand which fields of study affirmative action students graduated at the undergraduate level in public universities in Brazil in 2009 and 2010. Public universities began expanding access for underrepresented groups through racial, economic, and social affirmative action policies in 2001. The existing literature on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Affirmative Action, Social Justice, Undergraduate Study