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Luiz Augusto Campos
Other affiliations: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, University of New Brunswick, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Bio: Luiz Augusto Campos is an academic researcher from Rio de Janeiro State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Affirmative action & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 37 publications receiving 208 citations. Previous affiliations of Luiz Augusto Campos include Federal University of Rio de Janeiro & University of New Brunswick.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzes as diferentes modalidades de acoes afirmativas raciais em vigor nas universidades publicas brasileiras ate 2012.
Abstract: O artigo analisa as diferentes modalidades de acoes afirmativas raciais em vigor nas universidades publicas brasileiras ate 2012. A partir de um levantamento das leis e resolucoes que regulamentam tais politicas, cruzadas com microdados produzidos pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais, tracamos um panorama da acao afirmativa no pais. Nosso esforco tem por objetivo explicitar os diferentes diagnosticos acerca das desigualdades educacionais no Brasil em que as universidades se baseiam para elaborar suas politicas e investigar de que maneira adotam procedimentos para mitigar iniquidades na admissao aos seus cursos, lidando com o desafio de transformar categorias sociologicas como classe, raca e etnicidade, bem como demandas governamentais e de movimentos sociais em criterios norteadores de politicas publicas.
62 citations
22 May 2015
TL;DR: In this article, an evaluation was conducted on the colors of candidates running for city councilor in the 2012 elections in the country's two largest cities: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Abstract: It seems beyond controversy that national politics in Brazil is mostly white. Recent assessments indicate that the proportion of blacks in the federal parliament has never exceeded a mere 9%. Despite this apparent marginalization, there is scant information about the causes of this political under-representation. This article aims to clarify the filters that keep non-white, black and brown people out of Brazilian politics. Therefore, an evaluation was conducted on the colors of candidates running for city councilor in the 2012 elections in the country's two largest cities: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Given the lack of official records on the race or color of those candidates, we decided to submit their photos provided by the Electoral Supreme Court, to be classified by a team of researchers. The results allowed understanding to what extent the political alienation of non-white Brazilians is a result of: (i) biases in party recruitment; (ii) differences in educational capital and property between white and non-white candidates; (iii) inequalities in the distribution of party and electoral resources; or (iv) voters' own electoral preferences. Apparently, the electoral chances of blacks and browns reflect those groups' difficulties to ascend to the small elite of candidates who have the largest funds and most votes.
25 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of race-based affirmative action in the country's public higher education, and expose the procedures they adopt to lessen inequality, facing the challenge of transforming sociological categories such as class, race and ethnicity into public policy criteria.
Abstract: The article analyses current (up to 2012) race-based affirmative actions of various kinds in effect in Brazilian public universities. By drawing on laws and resolutions that regulate such actions, it resorts to microdata from the National Institute for Educational Research to present an overview of affirmative action in the country's public higher education. The aim is to bring out the universities' various diagnoses on education inequality on which they rely to define their student selection policies, and expose the procedures they adopt to lessen inequality, facing the challenge of transforming sociological categories such as class, race and ethnicity into public policy criteria, while dealing with demands from both government and social movements.
19 citations
16 Jul 2013
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the editorial strategy employed by the newspaper O Globo in dealing with race-based affirmative action policies, from the texts published by the paper on the topic from 2001 to 2008.
Abstract: This article examines the editorial strategy employed by the newspaper O Globo in dealing with race-based affirmative action policies, from the texts published by the newspaper on the topic from 2001 to 2008. We give special attention to opinion pieces, in order to test the hypothesis that O Globo exerts strict editorial control in order to present affirmative action as a public controversy. We called the newspaper's strategy "management of the space for debate". Time-based data analysis reveals that (1) O Globo keeps a constant ratio between the number of opinion pieces and the number of news pieces published; and (2) the editors also keep a constant ratio between the number of opinion pieces against race-based affirmative action and the ones for it, with a clear advantage for the former. Our study also shows that while editorials and readers' letters are predominantly against the policy, texts authored by academics and columnists are fairly split between pro and con positions, and the ones written by militants, politicians and bureaucrats are chiefly favorable to affirmative action. In sum, our study shows that O Globo is able to put on a facade of impartiality while exerting a strict management of the space for debate in ways that allow for opinions against race-based affirmative action to have an upper hand.
15 citations
TL;DR: In this article, an artigo sugere que divergencias nascem de perspectivas parciais de um mesmo fenomeno e que uma visao mais completa do racismo pode ganhar com uma integracao analitica da dimensao ideologica, pratica e estrutural.
Abstract: A despeito da proliferacao de teorias sociologicas sobre o racismo, a definicao das caracteristicas ontologicas desse fenomeno ainda e alvo de enormes discordâncias. As abordagens dominantes no campo ora definem racismo (i) como uma doutrina, ideologia ou conjunto de ideais; (ii) ora como um conjunto de atitudes, praticas e comportamentos mais ou menos irrefletidos; (iii) e ora como propriedade de estruturas sociais, sistemas ou instituicoes. Este artigo sugere que tais divergencias nascem de perspectivas parciais de um mesmo fenomeno e que uma visao mais completa do fenomeno pode ganhar com uma integracao analitica da dimensao ideologica, pratica e estrutural. Contudo, para que nao se perca de vista a complexidade do funcionamento social do racismo e, sobretudo, das politicas publicas existentes para mitiga-lo, e necessario integrar essas tres dimensoes sem dilui-las analiticamente, isto e, sem conferir precedencia de nenhuma delas em relacao as outras. Dai a utilidade de uma definicao realista critica do racismo como um fenomeno tridimensional.
12 citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, a judge in some representative American jurisdiction is assumed to accept the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction and to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l
Abstract: 1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a lawyer of superhuman skill, learning, patience and acumen, whom I shall call Hercules. I suppose that Hercules is a judge in some representative American jurisdiction. I assume that he accepts the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction. He accepts, that is, that statutes have the general power to create and extinguish legal rights, and that judges have the general duty to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l
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TL;DR: The authors argued that certain kinds of "collective rights" for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity can be answered.
Abstract: The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and status of minority cultures. It argues that certain sorts of 'collective rights' for minority cultures are consistent with liberal democratic principles, and that standard liberal objections to recognizing such rights on grounds of individual freedom, social justice, and national unity, can be answered. However, Professor Kymlicka emphasises that no single formula can be applied to all groups and that the needs and aspirations of immigrants are very different from those of indigenous peoples and national minorities. The book discusses issues such as language rights, group representation, religious education, federalism, and secession - issues which are central to understanding multicultural politics, but which have been surprisingly neglected in contemporary liberal theory.
241 citations
TL;DR: Ambition, federalism, and legislative politics in Brazil: A Review of the State of Brazil's Federalism and Brazil's Lawmaking Processes as mentioned in this paper, 2011-2013.
Abstract: Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil.
134 citations
10 Jul 2020
TL;DR: In this paper, an artigo about the impact of pandemic Covid-19 on the populacao negra negra is presented, with the aim of contribuir para a reflexao no tocante aos impactos da pandemia Covid 19 on the population negra, tendo como marco disparador a necessidade premente de analisar as assimetrias that essa emergencia sanitaria global produz, particularmente em contextos de desigualdade social, como e
Abstract: RESUMO Este artigo tem por objetivo contribuir para a reflexao no tocante aos impactos da pandemia Covid-19 na populacao negra, tendo como marco disparador a necessidade premente de analisar as assimetrias que essa emergencia sanitaria global produz, particularmente em contextos de desigualdade social, como e o caso do Brasil, em que a populacao em situacao de vulnerabilidade social pode ser representada majoritariamente pela populacao negra, em seus diferentes grupos especificos, tipificados por genero, por restricoes de acesso a educacao, protecao social, moradia adequada, servicos de saneamento basico, internet, bem como por ocupacao/desocupacao, por espaco geografico, por privacao de liberdade, ainda que paradoxalmente, quantitativamente equivalha a maioria da populacao brasileira, que acumula os piores indicadores.
101 citations
TL;DR: The authors analyzes as diferentes modalidades de acoes afirmativas raciais em vigor nas universidades publicas brasileiras ate 2012.
Abstract: O artigo analisa as diferentes modalidades de acoes afirmativas raciais em vigor nas universidades publicas brasileiras ate 2012. A partir de um levantamento das leis e resolucoes que regulamentam tais politicas, cruzadas com microdados produzidos pelo Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais, tracamos um panorama da acao afirmativa no pais. Nosso esforco tem por objetivo explicitar os diferentes diagnosticos acerca das desigualdades educacionais no Brasil em que as universidades se baseiam para elaborar suas politicas e investigar de que maneira adotam procedimentos para mitigar iniquidades na admissao aos seus cursos, lidando com o desafio de transformar categorias sociologicas como classe, raca e etnicidade, bem como demandas governamentais e de movimentos sociais em criterios norteadores de politicas publicas.
62 citations