AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES AS A STRATEGY TO CONSTRUCT RACIAL EQUALITY
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This paper aims to show the Affirmative Actions within the framework of international legislation and to point out its main function, which is to repair the damages caused by racism to the populations it victimizes. For the accomplishment of this task, I used ethnographic autobiography as a method and, in consonance with it; I analyzed the legal dispositions pertinent to the proposed theme. I found that racism became a legal concern in European countries after the Second World War, and the way in which international legislation to combat racism is presented was only possible thanks to the protagonism of groups victimized by racism. Their performance gave a strategic character to the legal set and paved the way for the construction of racial equality.
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