Brazilian racial dilemmas: the structural racism and the limits and perspectives of Law 12.711/2012

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Claudia Regina dos
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Parizzi, João Hagenbeck
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Educação e Políticas em Debate
• DOI: 10.14393/REPOD-v9nEspeciala2020-55606
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistaeducaopoliticas/article/view/55606
• topic: Racismo Estrutural; Ações Afirmativas; Política de Cotas; Ensino Superior; Brasil; Structural Racism; Affirmative Actions; Quota Policy; University education; Brazil; Racisme structurel; Actions positives; Politique de quota; Enseignement universitaire; Brésil

To what extent can a law or public policy overcome the structural racism that has historically characterized Brazilian society? The analysis on the affirmative action’s effects for the inclusion of black and brown people in undergraduate courses in Brazil since 2003 was the main objective of this article. Using a methodological approach of bibliographic and documental review and based on results obtained from empirical studies, it was concluded that the affirmative policies for black and brown students in Brazilian public universities had both quantitative (proportion of browns and blacks in universities in relation to proportion in society), and qualitative effects (measured by the inclusion and academic performance of quota holders). Despite this, the quota policy, even denoting an inclusion of blacks and browns in universities, does not represent full social inclusion, as the effects of including these students in the work market or even in the post-graduation courses on the same universities, which are sectors of a civil society marked by an undeniable structural racism, have not yet been measured.