QUOTA IS NOT ALMS! Black existences and resistances in the face of the mandatory implementation of the racial quota policy in graduate studies.
Graduate. Racial Quota Policy. Obligatoriness. Academic racism.
This thesis investigates how the determination of the affirmative action policy, especially racial quotas in the graduate studies at the Federal University of Alagoas - UFAL, has contributed to the unveiling and confrontation of academic racism. To this end, racial quotas are learned as a political and epistemic tool for correcting excluding actions and conceptions based on racial criteria. The study takes place in two fields, the field of the constitution of racial quotas through the disputes and conflicts reported by the Post/UFAL Quota Commission and the field of the implementation of racial quotas in three postgraduate programs in the areas of Humanities (Postgraduate Program -Graduate in Education), Health (Postgraduate Program in Health Sciences) and Exact Sciences (Postgraduate Program in Physics). The adoption of the reservation of vacancies by racial criterion is due to the mandatory implementation approved through Resolution No. 86/2018 (CONSUNI/UFAL), guided by the Normative Ordinance of the MEC No. 13/2016. Contrary to the West and its hegemonic scientific production, this work is based on three insurgent perspectives, the theory of Afrocentricity (ASANTE, 2009; NASCIMENTO, 2009), decoloniality (CARNEIRO, 2005; GROSFOGUEL, 2016; QUIJANO, 2005) and the critical studies of whiteness (BENTO, 2014; CARDOSO, 2008). The first orientation here is the black-African perspective-referenced as a stance adopted for black issues. Therefore, based on document analysis and through semi-structured interviews, perceptions will be collected regarding the constitution of racial quotas in graduate studies, the impacts of the presence of quota students in master's and doctoral courses and situations of practices oriented by racism when it is mandatory to implement the reservation of vacancies. The members of the Post/UFAL Quota Commission, as well as the professors of the selected Programs will be the main interlocutors. In this way, this research derives from the reality of racial inequalities in universities, which are white in their structure, and which historically perpetuates the silence on the internal processes of racial exclusion in graduate studies.