QUOTAS FOR THE BLACK POPULATION AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ: MOBILIZATIONS, IMPLEMENTATION AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

This article aims to present the mobilizations of different social actors for the implementation of quota policies to increase the entry of the black population in the undergraduate courses of the State University of Maringá, in Paraná, as well as raise indicative for analyses and studies that facilitate the deepening of affirmative actions in the State. For this, initially the emergence of the theme in the national scenario is contextualized with the legal regulations that underpin and subsidize the implementation of this policy throughout the national territory. From the examples of the first institutions of higher education that adopt racial quotas, in the first decade of the 21st century, other institutions are also positioning themselves in this regard and in Paraná this is no different. Although this discussion in this state has appeared since the first half of the 2000s, the State University of Maringá only approves this policy almost at the end of the second decade of this century, after the articulation of various groups in favor of the rights of black people. Based on reports and publications about the movements for the implementation of this policy, a record of the history is made, with the cataloguing of the main actions that led to the approval of quotas for blacks at the said university, on November 20, 2019, a day that symbolizes the resistance and struggle of the black people for rights. Finally, it opens the discussion to the paths to be followed for the success of the quotas for blacks in the university, signaling the challenges to be faced in becoming.