Comments on: Response to University Race Quotas Row in Brazil

By: Hillbilly

Hillbilly — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:55:18 +0000

@siss:
If I’m not mistaken the comparison of the school and university funding is appropriate given that the public higher education system is where the elite (almost exclusively white) of the nation enroll, whereas the non-white population is relegated to the private sector known for poor quality facilities and education as well as being cited as degree mills. Add to the fact that whites are more likely to attend private schools through secondary school with better resources and more funding, and it puts nonwhites at substantial disadvantage.

It’s like the families in the Hamptons sending their kids to Philips Andover or Exeter for high school and then sending them to only Michigan or Berkeley, while Harvard and Yale are struggling to stay open.

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By: daniel.waweru

daniel.waweru — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:03:30 +0000

Delighted to welcome Prof. Telles, whose very fine book I haven’t quite finished yet.

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By: Captainchaos

Captainchaos — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:50:33 +0000

If this does not definitively demonstrate the point then nothing will: Even after the point we are totally and hopelessly demographically submerged in every formerly Western country, it will not end. It will never end. And when our people are no more and everything we have built has been destroyed, our enemies will piss on our graves.

I’m not going down that road, I choose life. As will any of the sane.

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By: Dave Paul

Dave Paul — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:04:06 +0000

Very interesting. It’s disheartening to see the same troubles occurring in a nation that is so often used as the exemplar of a more stratified racial hierarchy… (as if many categorizations is somehow more liberating than America’s black-white dichotomy). The fact of the matter remains that racial stratification exists and is rooted in value-laden rhetoric, which posits white as better and positive and black as worse off and negative.

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By: JDF

JDF — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:06:03 +0000

Thanks for the post, particularly that the so-called “mulatto escape hatch” phenomenon is overblown. I will mention that next semester in my race course when we cover Brazil. The debate in Brazil over how to deal with racial inequality sounds similar to the one here, with some thinking education is the “magic bullet” to solving the problem. Just look to research from Feagin and others on the experiences of the black middle-class here, and all is NOT well for them, despite their education. Meanwhile, most of those exurban whites fleeing “bad” (i.e., more than 1/4 nonwhite) neighborhoods are well-educated professionals, not Archie Bunker types.

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By: siss

siss — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:06:34 +0000

Im a bit confused as to why we are comparing school funding for university vs. primary education? Those are two very different institutions and thus have different funding needs.

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By: No1KState

No1KState — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:58:13 +0000

Thanks for the info. It never ceases to amaze me, or annoy me rather, that perpetrators and beneficiaries of racism feel entitled to decided when there has been sufficient redress.

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