BLACK / DOCTOR. The judicial challenges to the Affirmative policies at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
Quotas. Affirmative Policies. University. Justice.
The University Management in brazilian institutions has shown its social
function, and the relevant role in the effort to reduce social inequalities in which
it is inserted. Particularly for population segments that have historically become
vulnerable by the scorn of education, especially in higher education. However,
innovation in the academic field and its constant improvement causes tensions
on the policies of social equalizations through education, especially in what
concerns the bustle about actions of ethno-racial quotas and their applicability.
In the Medicine undergraduate programs, the questions about the effectiveness
of quotas and their application are still the subject of judicial disputes. The
decisions of them have repercussions in the administrative sphere of the
University, as well as in the pedagogical management of the institutions. How to
face this judicialization in a context of increasing promotion of legal disputes for
the implementation of social rights is a question of the present work. It aims to
understand the phenomenon of judicialization of the affirmative university policy,
its impact on institutional management, and the meanders involving the
implementation of public and institutional actions to promote ethno-racial equity
through education. It proposes the investigation of the interfaces between the
exercise of the university autonomy and the legal interference in cases of
contestation of the adoption of quota policies in the federal universities of Bahia.
It has as a research methodology the participant observation in the contexts of
the University’s ethnic measurement processes together with the technique of
content analysis on decisions obtained from court lawsuits on the subject. By
observing context performance of the university management administrative
body executor of the respective policy, and the appraisal of the judicial
decisions that deal with the questioning of quotas and self-determination,
arguments and hypotheses are drawn for the aforementioned judicialization and
its repercussions on the mission of racial inequalities by the public university.