University black middle class: for an affirmative society project

This paper proposes to think how black, economically privileged subjects; position themselves in relation to affirmative actions and the democratization of public higher education. In order to reach our points of analysis, we constructed four narratives with self-declared black and middle class subj...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: de Castro, Ricardo Dias, Mayorga, Claudia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
Repositorio:Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20995
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/repam/article/view/20995
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ação afirmativa, negros, classe média, universidade.
affirmative action, black, middle class, university
acción afirmativa, negros, clase media, universidad.
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Sumario:This paper proposes to think how black, economically privileged subjects; position themselves in relation to affirmative actions and the democratization of public higher education. In order to reach our points of analysis, we constructed four narratives with self-declared black and middle class subjects who were involved in some anti-racist policy and / or group.  What we can perceive is that the experience of being black and belonging to medium economic contexts resizes the reading about quota policies beyond reserving vacancies for popular subjects in higher education institutions. In this direction, the subjects researched situate affirmative action as an economic policy; but above all, an academic-political production that moves from the white-centered elitism of the university. The affirmative policy, thus, is read as an anti-racist project for the university and society as a whole.