Brazil: Supreme court votes to back Affirmative Action programs in education

She’s not the recipient of any government scholarship and her university does not use any sort of quota system, something made clear by the fact Odara was one of the few black students in a sea of whites on Mackenzie’s leafy campus. Still, Odara said quotas and other such programs are only temporary fixes, and that what is needed is more government spending in public grade schools where most black Brazilians study, so that they are better prepared to enter universities on academic merit alone.

“The quotas are palliative, they’re only trying to momentarily resolve the problem,” she said. “What’s not being treated are the root ailments.”

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