AFFIRMATIVE POLICIES IN BRAZIL: A TEN-YEARS ROUTE ANALYSIS OF LAW 12.711/2012 (QUOTAS' LAW)

Abstract

In the education field, there is a plentiful of legislations under development in Brazil that aim to reduce asymmetries, concerning school access amongst white and black/brown people that, happens due to a slave-holding society inheritance black and brown people had less opportunities to join schools and universities, as a matter of fact, there has been laws that would help to curtail the right to formal schooling between these minorities. Amongst Brazilian’s vast legislation, in this essay, there will be a focus on August 29th, 2012’s law N° 12.711, aiming to analyse the route, the advancements and the challenges concerning Brazil’s affirmative actions of quotas. The employed methodology was descriptive research, having a ground on secondary fonts, based on bibliographic an documental data. The main findings were: The importance of International Human Rights’ law as a way to corroborate this very affirmative policy; The discovery of data concerning the importance of Brazilian quotas’ law as a way of spreading racial diversification in superior schooling and, finally, the non-compliance with the law-promoted monitoring and evaluating, as well as the delimitation from a scenario filled with lots of uncertainties surrounding the Law’s revision, which was bound to occur in 2022.