A oportunidade da cor: judicialização das cotas sociorraciais da UFMA

Abstract

This is an anlisys about the cause and effects of the judicialization attempted towards the social and racial affirmative action police used in the graduation courses at UFMA, from a relational reflection upon the field in dispute, enfolding the candidates, the commission of enrollment validation, the superior administration of the institution, the and the Federal Justice of the State. Some analytical categories, black person, affirmative actions, institutional racism, hetero-identification and judicialization, are disposed in order to understand these processes enlightened by the peculiarities of the ethnic and racial relations in Brasil. I also resort to a careful documental analysis about the public notices that regulate the entrance in the higher education and the legal demands protocoled by the Union Public Defence, in Maranhão, against UFMA, due to the administrative acts of the Commission of Enrolment Validation, making a counterpoint between the formal prediction of rights and its efficacy for the historical excluded segments of the population, with the intention of identifying how much this judicialization compromises the democratization process of accessing the higher education. For that, I establish a dialogue between institutional racism and social-racial inequalities, pointing out the affirmative actions as a feasible way to minimize the distances between black person and Brazilian educational system.