Global Race:Americas
Fabricio M. FIALHO (CERI/SciencesPo), "How States Make Race: New Evidence from Brazil" The Brazilian state recently adopted unprecedented race-targeted affirmative action in government hiring and university admissions. Scholarship would predict the state’s institutionalization of racial categories has “race-making” effects. In this article, we ask whether the Brazilian state’s policy turnabout has affected racial subjectivities on the ground, specifically toward mirroring the categories used by ...