A CPHA por dentro: um etnografia institucional sobre a comissão permanente de heteroidentificação complementar à autodeclaração da UFBA de 2019 a 2022

Abstract

The discourse of racial democracy, miscegenation and cordiality impacted the way in which affirmative action policies for ethnic-racial quotas were understood in Brazil. These speeches generated normative relationships that impacted on the weakening of ethnic-racial quotas due to fraud in racial self-declaration, as well as the problem of leniency in the action of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in relation to the institutionalization of measures that aimed to curb and investigate the fraud in ethnic-racial quotas. As of 2019, in the selection processes for admission to graduation, UFBA, in order to guarantee legal certainty for the entry of black quota students, adopted racial assessment as a complementary procedure to racial self-declaration, from the creation of the Permanent Commission of Heteroidentification Complementary to Self-Declaration (CPHA), which is responsible for managing racial assessment boards in the selection process for admission to graduation through ethnic-racial quotas and the investigation of ticket fraud. Starting from an ethnomethodological study, the aim is to investigate and analyze the institutional/discursive practices of the CPHA/UFBA through the social practices of its participants. The theoretical-methodological course consists of institutional ethnography based on the instruments of field diaries and interviews of the multiple references involved (Managers, Assessors of the Assessment Boards, Students enrolled by ethnic-racial quotas, Leaders of the Student Movement and Leaders of Black Movements ), understanding its implications. It aims, through this study, to describe the way of doing the CPHA/UFBA, as well as to understand the process of university management from the dialogue together with the student movement and the Brazilian black social movement.