Sunday, October 7, 2012

NY Times: Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities


(photo by Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools and vastly increase the number of university students of African descent across the country.






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