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"This book documents and explains a recent paradigm shift in Brazil's racial politics and subjectivity in recent decades. It engages major theories in ethnoracial politics, documents an understudied empirical phenomenon, and develops a novel theoretical argument about identity politicization and the shifting dynamics of Brazilian racial politics"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of figures; 1. Introduction; 2. The puzzle of racial reclassification; 3. Theory: racial reclassification as political identity formation; 4. Education as a mechanism of exposure; 5. Education and reclassification: testing the hypothesis; 6. Affirmative action and reclassification; 7. Implications for national politics; 8. Conclusion; References; Appendix A. supplementary information to chapters two and three; Appendix B. supplementary information to chapter four; Appendix D. supplementary information to chapter five; Appendix C. supplementary information to chapter six; Appendix E. supplementary information to chapter seven.