Apontamentos de Joaquim Barbosa em defesa das ações afirmativas nas universidades.

Abstract

This article aims to analyze Joaquim Barbosa's ideas and arguments in defense of affirmative actions for blacks in federal universities as an agent of social transformation. Entered the history of Brazil when he became the first black to become Supreme Court Minister - STF, Barbosa became a great example. Advocate for affirmative action as a means of combating social inequality, in 2001 he wrote an important article entitled The Constitutional Debate on Affirmative Action. We live in a country where social and racial inequality is a major factor in the exclusion of many blacks from universities, and affirmative action has come to try to bring about an equity between blacks and whites. At the STF, affirmative action at universities had many supporters, and one of them was Joaquim Barbosa, who wrote several texts on the subject, and our work is an analysis of the ideas and arguments in defense of the implementation of the system of racial quotas in universities public.