RACIAL QUOTAS: IMPLICATIONS OF DIFFERENCES IN SPACES HISTORICALLY OCCUPIED BY PREDOMINANTLY HOMOGENEOUS SOCIAL GROUPS
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Abstract: For this work, we selected the case study methodology with the aim of analyse a conflict occurred in an institution of Federal Education Network, situated in Rio de Janeiro’s city – Brazil - two years after occurred some adaptations in the selection’s criteria pupils with the purpose to attend the Law nº 12.711 (BRASIL, 2012). The scenery was drawn when some flow of racial offenses started in the social networks and, after that, had consequences in the interior of the school. In our analysis, we introduced the concepts of structural racism and racialism in order to denaturalize conceptions established themselves as truth in relation to socially defined standards. We see this work as a contributor to amplify the discussions about racism in Brazil – which, several times, this situations are minimized because the myth of brazilian racial democracy. All of this represent a possibility to deal with some subjects who often neglected in our society.
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