Abstract
This article contributes to reflections on the relations between quotas, racial identification, heteroidentification boards and the epistemic disputes that emerge from the admission of a larger contingent of black and brown university students in Brazilian public higher education. The material analyzed results from ethnography carried out among a collective of black students from the Medicine course at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), called Quilombo Ubuntu. Analysis focuses on the arrival of quota students, conflicts, stereotypes and agency processes; the dilemmas surrounding the choice of quota modality for admission, racial hetero-identification and its relationship with the processes of becoming black, as well as how this process is articulated with the production of knowledge, including epistemic changes, research themes, events in the area, and with the way they look at medical practice itself.
Keywords:
Affirmative actions; University education; Racial relationships; Intersectionality; Subjectivation