President of the Standing Committee on Ethnic and Racial Affairs of Unesp, Xavier believes that the use of the concept of phenotype, which corresponds to observable characteristics such as the color of the skin, the hair and the eyes, is the means most appropriate to evaluate the validity of the concepts. self-declaration.
"The idea behind the use of the phenotype as a criterion for this question of quotas is that the darker the person, the more prejudiced and discriminatory they are, and the social suffering they suffer," he says. professor
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Unesp expels 27 quota students after checking that they were neither black nor black
Unesp expels 27 quota students after verifying that they were neither black nor brown.
Of the 27 students whose names were published in the Official Journal as disconnected from Unesp for alleged invalidity in the self-declaration of race, five are from the west-central São Paulo – three of the Bauru campus and two of the Botucatu [19659006] The others come from units of Araraquara (7), Araçatuba (4), São José dos Campo s (3) and Ilha Solteira, Registro, São Paulo and Litoral (with two each).
This year, 50% of Unesp vacancies were for students in the public school system, and 35% of these were reserved for the system with quotas for people who declared themselves black, brown or Aboriginal. .
Professor Juarez Xavier is a standing commission of ethnic and racial affairs of Unesp: the act is administrative, without judicial proceedings – Photo: TV TEM / Reproduction
On the basis of the decisions of the Federal Supreme Court and the National Prosecutor's Office, Unesp created a commission to investigate the quotas according to the phenotype of the students benefiting from the system.
In 2016, this commission began to receive information alleging alleged irregularities that were the subject of an investigation for two years. These 27 unconnected students would not have satisfied the criteria used by the inquiry commission.
Xavier, who is also chairman of the Unesp-Bauru Quoting Committee, explained that this decision is an administrative act that also prevents students who have been admitted to an admission exam at the university. UNESP to spend five years. According to him, the university chose not to prosecute students expelled from civilian areas.
Jessica Ferreira, a sophomore at Unesp-Bauru, entered the university on the basis of a racial quota.
She claims that the process that led to the evictions grew after complaints from colleagues who did not agree that non-black or brown people would attend meetings. course on the basis of the quota criterion.
"In addition to being a misdemeanor of ideological lie, self-deception is a selfish attitude on the part of people who do not understand that it is wrong to take a position that would not be hers, "says Jessica
For her, the measure is right and will answer who else needs the quota system. "It was an important act for the blacks of the universities, but also a progress for the black Brazilian people, because the quota system is a question related to the concept of social justice", added the student.
Jessica Ferreira, a journalism student, sees selfishness in the false self-declaration:" They took a place that would not be theirs "- Photo: TV TEM / Reproduction