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"Brazil has developed a distinctive response to the injustices inflicted by the country's race relations regime. Despite the mixed racial background of most Brazilians, the state recognizes people's racial classification according to a simple official scheme in which those self-assigned as black, together with "brown" and "indigenous" (preto-pardo-indigena), can qualify for specially allocated resources, most controversially quota places at public universities. Although this quota system has been somewhat successful, many other issues that disproportionately affect the country's black population remain unresolved, and systemic policies to reduce structural inequality remain off the agenda. In The Prism of Race, David Lehmann explores, theoretically and practically, issues of race, the state, social movements, and civil society and then goes beyond these themes to ask whether Brazilian politics will forever circumvent the severe problems facing the society by co-optation and tinkering with unjust structures. Lehmann disrupts the paradigm of current scholarly thought on Brazil, placing affirmative action disputes in their political and class context, bringing back the concept of state corporatism, and questioning the strength and independence of Brazilian civil society"--

The history and methodological tradition(s) of collective memory work / Corey W. Johnson, Dana B. Kivel and Luc S. Cousineau -- How does media consumption contribute to understandings of manhood according to race and sexual identity? / Rudy Dunlap and Corey W. Johnson -- How do adults remember their parents' reaction to gender non-conformity? / Rebecca Eaker, Anneliese Singh and Corey W. Johnson -- How can memories of enacted masculinity create more effective elementary school teachers? / Chris Hansen and Corey W. Johnson -- What are the experiences of white faculty at historically black colleges and universities? / Needham Yancey Gulley, Anthony F. Patterson and Corey W. Johnson -- How do we sustain activism? : LGBTQ and Black people share their positive and negative experiences / Jemelleh Coes, Needham Yancey Gulley and Corey W. Johnson -- Using collective memory work to create safer schools for queer and trans students : a story of love, liberation, and transformation / Anneliese A. Singh and Corey W. Johnson -- Why shouldn't I do collective memory work? : potential challenges and pitfalls / Nikki Laird and Corey W. Johnson -- Are you next? : common elements of collective memory work / Corey W. Johnson and Harrison Oakes