A Cor que discrimina é a mesma que inspira: a representatividade das cotas raciais nas universidades públicas

Abstract

This research aims at analyzing the contemporary situation of racial quotas in public institutions of higher education in Brazil, a mutating affirmative policy that must be adapted to current situations and objectives. Initially a historical contextualization was made of the emergence of affirmative actions in Brazil, highlighting, among them, the process of implementation of racial quotas in some specific public universities. A brief account of the intense debates that took place throughout the history of racial quotas in these institutions highlights the difficulty in adopting only the criterion of ethnic-racial self-declaration in the face of intense racial miscegenation in Brazilian society, leaving that the purpose of these affirmative actions could diverge. In this context and highlighting the objective that should be the current north of the racial quotas, that is, the representativeness of the black population, based on the criterion of heteroidentification, which is being used, in a subsidiary way to the self-declaration, made by a Commission on the Validation of Ethnic-Racial Self-Declaration. In order to carry out such validation, these commissions have been making use of the phenotypic criterion to validate or not the black (black or brown) self-declaration of the candidate for the vacancy reserved by the racial quotas.