Challenges for racial equity in universities: the processes of continuity of colonization in the epistemological sphere of formation

Abstract

The dialogue proposed here aims at discussing the processes of continuity of colonization in the epistemological sphere and their linkages to the formation of individuals from historically marginalized social groups who are currently accessing Universities from affirmative actions and policies. The access and admissions of black students, indigenous persons, people from outlying districts, from small cities of the interior, persons with background from social strata that have been historically marginalized and deprived from the right to quality public education, and the universities themselves have been against the meritocratic and excluding logic that has long been a marker of education in Brazil. The admissions of these students into universities has broken the frequent tradition of low schooling to which these social groups have been systematically submitted to. As findings, the new reality of these Institutions highlights the need for training strategies for effective transformation, also there is an urge to change their actions in order to welcome and affiliate these new students.