OLIVEIRA SILVEIRA AT UNB: COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND RACIAL INCLUSION POLICIES
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Ideas and collective memories may be developed from individual initiatives. The present article aims to illustrate this statement from the analysis of the social and historical development of a date, the National Day of Black Consciousness, considering the effective contribution of a person, the poet from Rio Grande do Sul Oliveira Silveira, for its theoretical and political consolidation. The fundamental proposal to the strengthening of general valuation of the date was relate it to the murder of Zumbi, Quilombo dos Palmares leader, national hero considered a symbol for the fight of contemporary black population against racism, characterized by resistance and questioning of the subordination of black people. Moreover, this reflection is contextualized with the concrete case of the visit that Oliveira Silveira made to the University of Brasilia - UNB in 2006, when affirmative action policies prevail at the institution, represented by quotas for blacks in the entrance exam system, in order to deal with the evolution of black consciousness theme in Brazil.
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