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WILL AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES AID EQUALITY? An interview with leading experts on education and racial issues in Brazil, the article discusses the implications of the country's new affirmative action law for the nation's universities and students. MORE

	NEW CENTURY, OLD DISPARITIES: GENDER, ETHNICITY, AND INCOME INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA The Dialogue hosted a discussion with IDB lead economist for education, Hugo Ñopo, to release his new book.  Marcelo Paixão, head of the Race and Data Institute at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, offered comments on racial inequality in Brazil.   MORE
	THEN AND NOW: RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND INEQUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA  A conversation with Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández highlights the different forms of persistent racial discrimination in the region and the tools that have been used to discriminate against Afro-descendant populations. MORE

ABOUT

The Inter-American Dialogue in cooperation with the Inter-American Development Bank is relaunching an important policy program on race and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. The goals of this program are threefold. First, it seeks to increase the visibility of Afro-descendant populations in the region along with the economic, social, and political challenges they face. Second, the program supports the integration of race-related issues into the development agendas of governments and political leaders. This aspect of the program includes the promotion of the socioeconomic and political participation of Afro-descendants in the region. Finally, both the Dialogue and the IDB are working to  address the lack of available research and data on the social and development concerns of Afro-descendant groups in Latin America and the Caribbean.      

STAFF

Peter Hakim, President Emeritus
Caitlin Reilly, Program Assistant                                  

For more information, contact Caitlin Reilly at creilly@thedialogue.org or (202) 463-2572.

• Incorporating Race and Ethnicity into the UN Millennium Development Goals, by Edward Telles, Jan. 1, 2007. 
• Constitutional Provisions and Legal Actions Related to Discrimination and Afro-Descendant Populations in Latin America, August 1, 2004.
• Afro-Descendants: Development with Participation, Inter-Agency Consultation on Race in Latin America, Febuary, 2004 (Spanish) (Portuguese).
• Afro-Descendants in Latin America: How Many?, Race Report, January, 2003.
• Race and Poverty: Interagency Consultation on Afro-Latin Americans, June, 2000 (Spanish).