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Dangerous Divisions: Racial Policies in Contemporary Brazil is a book organized by anthropologists Peter Fry, Yvonne Maggie , Marcos Chor Maio , Simone Monteiro and Ricardo Ventura Santos that brings together articles contrary to the promotion of public policies based on racial criteria. When the book was written, the Racial Quota Law Project (PL 73/99) and the Racial Equality Statute (PL 3.198/2000) were being discussed in Congress.

According to the organizers, the book argues that "in order to overcome racial discrimination, it is necessary to extinguish the belief inherited from the 19th century that people's appearance reveals moral and intellectual qualities or defects. 'race' in the letter of the law."

"It is one of the few books that, in the current scenario of discussions, places itself critically in relation to the implementation of racially focused policies in Brazil."