RACIAL QUOTAS:

AN ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBERS IN UNDERGRADUATE AND STRICTO SENSU POSTGRADUATE, MASTER AND DOCTORATE COURSES

Abstract

Brazilian Higher Education is marked by intense social, regional, ethnic-racial and economic inequalities, which motivated the affirmative actions of quotas in favor of historically segregated students. After 10 years of the approval of Law nº 12.711/2012, this article aims to analyze, from the perspective of the principle of equality, racial quotas in undergraduate and specialization courses, Master and Doctorate, thus making a study anchored in statistical data. Methodologically, it operates on the premises of dialectics, analyzing documents from the selected Universities (Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul – UNIJUÍ; Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – URI; e Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul – UFFS) and bibliographic productions. Therefore, the research consists of thinking about racial quotas as an interactive process, observing social inequalities, as well as the elitism of Brazilian higher education. Thus, racial quotas, when enabling access to the university, also materializes the right to education, the Principle of Equality and Dignity of the Human Person.