Cotas raciais : uma análise a partir da visão dos discentes de graduação da Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Paper deals with the issue of racial quotas and has the objective of studying the vision of undergraduate students of the Federal University of Sergipe on the subject. The general objective is to analyze the understanding of the students of the Federal University of Sergipe about the policy of racial quotas in public universities. It is based on the hypothesis that the students of more elitist courses, those belonging to the centers of Biological Sciences and Health and Exact Sciences and Technology, are mostly against this policy, both for their socioeconomic insertion and for the absence of transversal contents on reality Brazil, as is the case of racial quotas and racism itself, in its curricular structures. In addition, it presents elements about slavery in Brazil, the current panorama of exclusion of the black population in Brazilian society, presents a brief discussion about the racial issue as an expression of the social question and brings historical and normative notes on affirmative action and politics of racial quotas. The debate is part of bibliographical and documentary research, as well as exploratory, empirical, qualitative-quantitative research, based on the dialectical historical materialist method. The main results indicate a greater rejection of the quota policy for the courses belonging to the Biological Sciences and Health Sciences and Exact Sciences and Technology centers when compared to the courses of the Centers of Applied Social Sciences and Education and Human Sciences, but in general they were shown in the majority, refuting the hypothesis that the students of these courses, considered to be elite, are mostly against this policy. In addition, the predominant position in general research was favorable, representing 84% of the students surveyed.