Classificação étnico-racial e ações afirmativas no contexto do vestibular

Abstract

The concept of race and ethnicity are basic for the anthropological theory since its appearance as human knowledge and nowadays are fundamental for many debates in the political and social sphere and in the human sciences in general. In the social brazilian thought were many authors of different areas that dedicated themselves to the racial studies. The affirmative action insertion as a way of getting in the universities has heated and increased the debate in the common sense, the academy and in the media in general. This research began with the intention of investigate the relation between the affirmative action and the race/colour identity. As methodology we used the quantitative and qualitative analysis. Our centre was students of a preparation course for the universities exams called Grupo Perspectiva Integral (GPI) . We searched for getting the point of view of this students about their ethnic-racial meanings and relations, opinions and feelings about racial matters in Brazil and specially referred to affirmative action in the education context and investigate the relation between who am I and which is my race/colour in the population. Then, we applied one hundred and one questionnaires and twelve interviews. Although we didn t intend to establish a direct and cause relation between affirmative action and race/colour identities, we were able to make a general and racial profile of the studied population, perceive and analyze many elements referred to racial classification and opinions and feelings about the affirmative action, racism and the professional expectations from the students.