Abstract

The article summarized here presents the results of qualitative research conducted in 2019 on quilombola students accepted to the State University of Southwestern Bahia (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia – UESB) under a system of supplementary quotas.

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  • The article summarized here presents the results of qualitative research conducted in 2019 on quilombola students accepted to the State University of Southwestern Bahia (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia – UESB) under a system of supplementary quotas.a

  • Quilombolas are residents of quilombos, traditional Afro-Brazilian, and generally rural, communities, which generally originated either from settlements of escaped slaves, from groups of freedpeople who received land donated by former masters, or from families of freed people who bought or occupied land in the post-emancipation period

  • Quilombolas have long suffered violence and discrimination from both large landowners and the State, and many such communities have lost most of their land through various combinations of violence and legal trickery by neighboring landowners

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Introduction

The article summarized here presents the results of qualitative research conducted in 2019 on quilombola students accepted to the State University of Southwestern Bahia (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia – UESB) under a system of supplementary quotas.a. Several institutions of higher education in Brazil, following the strategy 12.13 of goal 12 in the National Education Plan1, have implemented affirmative action policies to guarantee access and facilitate the academic success of groups that historically have been excluded from higher education.

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