Analysis of the effectiveness of affirmative actions for entry of teachers in public universities and impact on ST&I financing policies (2014-2021)

Abstract

Slavery in Brazil left its mark of socio-economic inequality on the Brazilian black population. Affirmative action aims to overcome these democratic deficits, as is the case with the quota system in the public service (e.g. federal law No. 12.990/2014). At the federal level, public tenders must follow the racial quota system whenever the number of vacancies is equal to or greater than three per public notice. In the case of higher education, there is still little use of quotas for admission to federal universities, and even less so in state universities, as can be seen from the data in recent studies based on public notices. Therefore, in order to analyze this panorama, we proposed the project entitled this summary, which was approved in CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT Call No. 18/2021 - Track A - Emerging Groups - Universal Call 2021 - and is being carried out at the Federal University of Sergipe. The research problem involves understanding the effectiveness of the post-2014 racial affirmative action system at public universities in three regions of the country: the South, the whitest (74.1%); the Northeast, the blackest (11.6%); and the North, the brownest (74.5%), according to the IBGE. The hypothesis suggests that there is administrative resistance in the management of public tenders at universities in compliance with affirmative action for the inclusion of black and brown people, as well as reduced effectiveness at the state level. Preliminary data indicates that since 2014 there has been a small number of competitions with racial quotas for higher education, and when there are, the number of successful candidates is also low, generating short-term repercussions on access to productivity grants and research projects in ST&I through public calls, which are mostly accessed by whites. The methodology will include the collection and analysis of federal and state legislative data, university administrative regulations, human resources figures and court cases, as well as the validation of the results through a focus group with black and brown professors from federal and state public universities in the regions studied as a way of articulating scientific research with civil society.