Abstract
The article seeks to build a theoretical framework for analysis of the situation of blacks in Brazilian academic space, questioning the sense of production of the identity process of these subjects in view of their setting amid a hegemonic community of ethnocentric values. Taking the Theory of Identity as a fundamental assumption, we defend the thesis of the impossibility to discuss the shortage of blacks in Brazilian teaching system guided only by personal assumptions of merit and qualification, given the evidence of the effects of intergenerational transmission of poverty coupled with racial discrimination, a scenario that privileges certain hegemonic groups. Finally, it corroborates the need to apply the proposed affirmative action implemented by Law 12,990, considering the lack of public tenders in this perspective.
Keywords:
identity; academics; ethnic-racial relations; critical theory