IMPORTANCE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS IN FACING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL: REFLECTIONS ON SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND FIGHTING STRUCTURAL RACISM
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: In the face of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the inaction of the government of President Jair Bolsonaro to protect the basic right to life of the Brazilian population, the Amerindian peoples created strategies, media mobilizations, forms of social organization and specific resistance to demand political measures. together with the Public Ministry and the Federal Supreme Court. This Experience Report, the result of the conference given by the indigenous professor-anthropologist Felipe Tuxá during the VIII Anniversary of NEABI-UENF (11/19/2020), reflects on the importance of Affirmative Actions, in particular, the Racial Quota Law in the university education of indigenous people who acted directly on the front lines of the fight against this pandemic.
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