global-journal-of-human-social-science-c-sociology-culture Global Journal of Human-Social Science - C: Sociology & Culture 0975-587X 2249-460X Global Journals Publishing Group Incorporated 62249 Racial Heteroidentification Committees In Brazil: Reflections on Self-Identification And Self-Declaration Affirmative Action and Racial Quotas in Brazil CamillotoBruno CamillotoLudmilla BRAZIL, Federal University of Ouro Preto - Ouro Preto (MG), Brazil. 07 10 2023 23 C5 21 32

We intend to discuss the heteroidentification committees in competition for racial quotas for black people to ingress in a public university in Brazilian Higher Education. Firstly, we begin with a brief presentation of this educational system and the context of the affirmative action policy in racial markers in Brazil. Secondly, we introduce the conceptual differentiation between “self-identification” (of the dimension of ‘to be’) and “self-declaration” (of the dimension of ‘to do’). Thirdly, we present Brazil’s socio-legal context of racial affirmative action policies. Finally, we argue that the result of heteroidentification committees does not invalidate racial selfidentifications but only self-declarations. That procedure is an essential method of social control of the public policy of racial affirmative actions in Brazilian Higher Education.

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We intend to discuss the heteroidentification committees in competition for racial quotas for black people to ingress in a public university in Brazilian Higher Education. Firstly, we begin with a brief presentation of this educational system and the context of the affirmative action policy in racial markers in Brazil. Secondly, we introduce the conceptual differentiation between “self-identification” (of the dimension of ‘to be’) and “self-declaration” (of the dimension of ‘to do’). Thirdly, we present Brazil's socio-legal context of racial affirmative action policies. Finally, we argue that the result of heteroidentification committees does not invalidate racial selfidentifications but only self-declarations. That procedure is an essential method of social control of the public policy of racial affirmative actions in Brazilian Higher Education.