Brazilian issues on education, gender and race /

"Includes articles by researchers from the Fundaç{tilde}ao Carlos Chagas, an interdisciplinary research institution dedicated to studying relations between education and Brazil's social problems, educational evaluation, and gender and race relations. Articles are representative of work developed in recent years by Fundaç{tilde}ao researchers and focus on the social and educational issues facing Brazil at the dawn of a new century"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.