“Do escravismo às políticas de ações afirmativas: o negro cotista na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora”

Abstract

This thesis tries to promote a discussion concerning the brazilian racial relationships and the affirmative action policies focusing on the experience faced by the black students benefited by the JFFU quotas system. For that, at the first moment, we present the origin of the social inequalities in Brazil, against the background of the racial discrimination, presenting brief considerations on the brazilian social and capitalist education background and on the foundation of the national State as a result of the independence process (which did not predict the end of the slavery system). It is necessary to think of the racial relationships in Brazil and the social and economic inequalities which put black and white people into opposition in order to understand the relationships that were made up since then. For a second moment, the number of social and economic inequalities which oppose black and white people were presented as well as the affirmative action policies, considering all the political and historical path of this policy constitution, focusing on the quotas policy as a way to be granted access to the public college education. Then some considerations about the public college education were presented as well as the main controversies on the affirmative action policies. Ultimately, we characterize the research locus with brief considerations about Juiz de Fora city as well as JFFU and its quotas system, and then the research which listened to the university black students, which was carried out through semistructured interview guide, which analysed the experience faced by the JFFU black quota holder students. This allowed us to reflect on how the black quota holders are experimenting the graduation course, their demands, achievements and expectations.