ONDE ESTÃO OS ALUNOS NEGROS DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE MARINGÁ (PR)?

Abstract

This research aimed at characterizing the black students at the State University of Maringá (UEM). For this paper, we used bibliographic reference to better understand racial issues and be able to write about them. It was also used a table of color / race of students enrolled at the State University of Maringá separate courses in which they are enrolled, organized by the Center for Data Processing (NPD) this institution, with data acquired by the Office of Academic Affairs (DAA). Our concern comes from the conditions experienced by black people in Brazil, from their withdrawal from the various regions of Africa to be enslaved in Brazil to nowadays This population has a history of exclusion. After years of slave labor, it is excluded from access to any public policy and had no chance of accessing mainly university. We concluded from this survey that the black students of UEM, as in most universities, are mostly majoring in less valued areas by Brazilian society, as the Humanities majors, and they out of most valued majors, such as medicine, engineering and law. Keywords: Cultural geography; Racial quotas, Education, Public policies.