Políticas públicas e cotas raciais como instrumento de integração do negro a universidade

Abstract

Brasil was one of the last countries in the world to free its slaves. After more than three centuries of slavery, the legacy that remained was racism and racial prejudice in Brazilian society, despite the famous Myth of Racial Democracy present in the classic “Casa Grande e Senzala” has helped to camouflage this reality experienced by most of the population. black or mixed population. things are pretty clear today. In any case, experiences carried out in a somewhat incipient and precarious way until the arrival of public policies on racial quotas in Brazilian federal public universities helped to pacify things. Along the same path, the Racial Equality Statute was created in 2010. Federal Universities that have always been considered a place for whites began to receive large waves of black and brown students through their selections by the Racial Quota System, in this spirit, this article it proposes to investigate to what extent public policies on racial quotas integrate black people into the university and society.