Black, Gay and from the North: Affirmative Action in the Flesh

Authors

  • Anderson da Costa Pereira Museu Nacional/UFRJ

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.132065

Keywords:

Affirmative action, Racism, Postgraduate education, Afro- Brazilian groups, Social anthropology

Abstract

 Starting from an invitation to speak from a student’s point of view regarding the affirmative action policy for entry into one of the most important postgraduate programs in the country, I offer a reflection on the causes that make this policy a necessity: racism and its many and dissimulated variants in a country only constitutionally democratic and egalitarian. To that end, I present several situations from my personal life since before my undergraduate studies up to the present, articulating these experiences with some of the main arguments for and against the postgraduate access policies that are beginning to be implemented in Brazil.

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Author Biography

  • Anderson da Costa Pereira, Museu Nacional/UFRJ
     

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Published

2017-05-12

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Dossier - Affirmative Actions in Postgraduate Programs in Anthropology

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How to Cite

Pereira, A. da C. (2017). Black, Gay and from the North: Affirmative Action in the Flesh. Revista De Antropologia, 60(1), 35-46. https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2017.132065