As ações afirmativas na Câmara Federal: uma análise das orientações políticas que as norteiam

Abstract

The debate around the establishment of affirmative action in higher education institutions in Brazil has acquired great repercussions in various spheres of our society resulting in dozens of bills introduced to Congress with the purpose of regulation of these policies. Despite its recurrence establishing affirmative action is far from reaching a consensus, which can be seen by the numerous statements by intellectual sectors and civil society contesting its validity. Among the main arguments against these policies lies the idea that its implementation in countries without racial problems severe duty would be to attempt to impose a model of race relations eminently American. To try to ascertain the validity of this thesis our work sought to capture the ideological frameworks that determine under what interpretive frameworks affirmative action policies are being built in Brazil. For that, I turn to the analysis of all bills introduced to the House of Representatives among the years 1988 and 2010, seeking to interpret the political course of the formal legislative proposals in order to find trends under which the symbolic frames are constructed that contribute to the construction, justification and defense of the proposals under the affirmative action policies. At the end of our analysis it is shown that the differences - especially in relation to the objectives of the affirmative actions in Brazil and the United States, but also with relation of the public attended - the ideological perspectives involved in the process of institutionalization of these policies among this two countries are very different and the constitution of these policies shows up much more complex than a simple import or imposition of foreign models pure, involving a range of interpretations and specific social interests to Brazilian complex socio-cultural.