From Exclusion to Controlled Inclusion: blacks and women in Brazilian diplomacy

Abstract

Intelligence, sophistication, keen taste (refined taste), mastery of several languages, established knowledge of art, culture and the use of label rules of etiquette. These aspects, in a naturalized way, compose the diplomatic habitus. The Brazilian diplomacy remained for a long time faithful to the norms and spaces that consecrated and distinguished it from the rest of Brazilian society, so that until the redemocratization Itamaraty was the reflection of its elite, this includes the expressive majority of white men. It was only in the second half of the 1990s that more effective measures were taken to diversify career staff. Considering the historical construction of the field, the diplomatic habitus and the measures adopted in the last decades, it´s intended to investigate the forms of exclusion and inclusion of minorities, especially women and black people. The research on this social space is fundamental to the extent that the production about this field and its agents is very scarce. For the analysis were used quantitative and qualitative methods: survey, interviews, memoirs, biographies, database with geographic origin and school education, annuals and notices of concourse.