Article 03: AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS AND THE POLICY OF RACIAL QUOTAS WITHIN THE SYSTEM EDUCACIONAL BRASILEIRO

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reflect on affirmative action, with an emphasis on of racial quotas, as a way to promote the equality of socially isolated groups or
economically and analyze the legitimacy and justice of this type of action. Therefore, the main focus of this study focuses on positive racial discrimination, that is, reverse discrimination or, as we are dealing with in Brazilian legal doctrine, discrimination protected by law, the affirmative action. Affirmative action is understood to mean any public or private policy aimed at to promote social inclusion and to ensure the existence of a society effectively pluralistic There are national examples of affirmative action: ensuring the minimum number of women in political parties and quota policies for people with disabilities special and for afro-descendants. This, the most controversial of them. The quota policy for in the college entrance examination is justified by the fact that the Brazilian university is composed mostly by whites, thus valuing only one segment ethnicity in the construction of the thinking of the national problems, limiting the offer of solutions to the difficulties encountered in our country. However, this is a measure of emergency rather than a definitive solution. We conclude that it is not enough for the only to curb racism, as is mistakenly supposed, but there is a need to preferential treatment to those which, during the process of organization of the and society, have been marginalized.