Affirmative Action is NOT dead in BrazilTell the world that affirmative action is alive and thriving in Brazil. I wrote a profile of the Black priest who spent the last thirty years working to make this a reality - Frei David.Before moving to Brazil eight years ago, I embarked upon a series of interviews to understand Black Brazil. I asked every person I interviewed (academics, Brazilians, expats) one question: Who or what has done the most to help Afro-Brazilians advance in the last 50 years?The most cited thing was quotas—affirmative action for Afro-Brazilians to attend public universities. The most cited person was Frei David, who many said was the most responsible for the widespread Brazilian adoption of quotas (or affirmative action as we call it in the US) for admittance to universities and coveted government jobs. Frei David Raimundo dos Santos is a Black Catholic priest in Brazil who has spend the last 45 years fighting against racism and working to expand higher education for Black people in Brazil. I just published profile of Frei David and this paragraph from my article best sums up his work:
But very few people outside of Brazil know about his work.So I set out to write an English profile of him. Thanks to the good people at the USC Center for Civic and Religion, I received a fellowship to write about Frei David for the Black Catholic Messenger. THE PROFILE IS HERE AND NOW I NEED YOUR HELP. Here is what I need you to do to get the word out about Frei David, and affirmative action in Brazil.
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Saturday, August 12, 2023
Affirmative Action is NOT dead in Brazil
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