Abstract
This paper analyzes the reasoning discourse at the judgment of ADPF 186/DF that ruled separate quotas for Afro-Brazilian students constitutionally valid. The Critical Legal Discourse Analysis (ACDJ), that emphasizes the ideological and political effects of any discourse, reveals in the corpus of the judgment, evidences of post-colonial and decolonial theoretical frameworks of human rights. As a result, the analysis unveils what is ideologically hidden in the realm of the plan, the assumption, the implicit, or the implied on this decision of the Supreme Court. For doing so, we set up a framework of decolonial turning key concepts as following: otherness, externality, interculturality, pluriversality and empowerment.
Postcolonial and decolonial theories; Critical Analysis of the Legal Discourse; Human Rights; afrodescendants; Brazilian Supreme Court