Marxian analysis of quota policy in Brazilian public higher education

• Autor(a) principal: Mocelin, Cassia Engres
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Katálysis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/katalysis/article/view/1982-02592020v23n1p101

This article presents a theoretical and bibliographic review discussing social and ethnic-racial quotas in Brazilian federal highereducation institutions, based on the historical and dialectical materialism. The study considers the university as an arena of class struggleand raises the question: to what extent does the policy of social and ethnic-racial quotas constitute processes of resistance to fairdistribution and equal bourgeois rights? It is understood that the quota policy emerges and is justified on the assumption that the equalright does not include the black population. This bourgeois pseudo-equality does not consider this population’s historically deniedaccess to socially produced goods and wealth. Therefore, there must be another form of access, which is connected to another form offacing the issue of universality, considering diversity and the need for unequal treatment, since the equal treatment maintains theinequality.