Afro-descendant quotes: Inclusion and fighting racism in the university

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Vitor Hugo
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Marques, Ana Maria
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Oficina do Historiador
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/oficinadohistoriador/article/view/39522
• topic: Racism; Public University; Afro-descendant quotas; Racismo; Universidade Pública; Cota para pessoas negras

This article analyzes the process of the afro-descendants quotas implementation, highlighting what happened at the Federal University of Mato Grosso, from 2003 to 2020, especially in 2012, when the institution adapted the quotas Law. The main conflicts are discussed with advocates of meritocracy and university excellence. Additionally, as a brief historical report, some basic debates about racism and social reparation in Brazil are analyzed. There are also presented some social indicators and the quantitative distribution of the “affirmative action” spots in the university until 2020 and some facets of academic racism. The methodology included bibliographic analysis, social indicators and institutional data. As a conclusion, this article understands that the quotas for afro-descendants are one of the tools in the fight against structural racism, considering the discrimination that the black population has historically suffered in Brazil and that there is still a long way to go, especially by expanding the dimensions for graduate studies, taking into account that, in this article, more emphasis was placed on the intersectionalities of race and social class.