Cotas raciais em concursos públicos: o impacto da lei 12.990/14 no perfil dos servidores na UFLA

Abstract

The quotas are a form of affirmative action that aims to reserve a percentage of spots for a particular disadvantaged group, in order to reduce existing inequalities. Through quotas these people occupy places that were once difficult to reach, for exemple in a public sector. The quota law for competition arises from the finding of a lower share of blacks in the sector, in contrast to the general population of self-declared skin color in the country. Thus, when aiming at a knowledge about the subject, the present work will analyze racial quotas in the scope of federal public view, based on law 12.990 / 2014 and will analyze its impact on the racial profile of the servers of the Federal University of Lavras - UFLA. The focus was the discussion will be to verify whether this law has modified the racial profiling of the university's servers and to present the impacts it has had. The paper did an briefly describe the definition of affirmative action, the concept of quotas, the statute of racial equality, and then discuss federal law 12,990 / 2014. Finally, he will do an analysis of the quotas in the university and the daily benefits in the life of the quotaholders. For this, at the work was adopted a qualitative, descriptive exploratory research.