Afrodescendentes na universidade: as políticas de ações afirmativas no Brasil e na Colômbia numa perspectiva comparada (2000-2018).

Abstract

The 2000s represented a paradigm shift on the nation-states institutional recognition about their own internal racial inequality, resulting in the commitment to the promotion of racial equality in the UN sponsored third world conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, the Durban Conference. Both Colombia and Brazil were part of the group that implemented the measures that were agreed in such occasion, such as the creation of raciais quotas aiming to reduce inequalities in the acesso f universities between blacks and whites in the access of university. However, even if those countries policies were united in sharing the same end goal, it’s execution was vastly different. As such, the present research sought to provide an overview of affirmative actions in Brazil and Colombia, by identifying the differences between the models, their agenda formation and their results. By doing so, the present research employed a qualitative documental analysis of comparative policy. As for the theoretical framework, it was employed the post-colonial theory, due its use of race as an analytical category and its understanding of colonialism effects on the the creation of systemic oppressions.