HETEROIDENTIFICATION BOARDS AT UFRN:
DISPUTES, FORMATS AND IMPACTS.
Key words: Affirmative actions. Racial quotas. Heteroidentification Boards.
ince the implementation of affirmative actions as a response to the reparation of historically subordinated social groups, such as the black, indigenous and quilombola population, who had their cultures and lives exterminated by processes such as slavery and land exploitation, Anthropology has focused on monitoring and reflect on public policies created and achieved by social movements, mainly by black movements. The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte's adherence to the racial quota policy proved to be effective in transforming the racial profile of students. However, faced with situations of fraud in the racial quotas for admission to undergraduate courses, racial hetero-identification panels were implemented as a complementary tool for racial self-declaration. Based on an ethnographic description of the implementation path, I propose a reflection on the methodology constructed by the Special Commission for Verification of Racial Self-Declaration for the identification of self-declared black candidates (black and brown), of which I was part, presenting an analysis of the techniques used and a comparison with those of other federal universities in Brazil. Here, the use of photographs as a tool for racial verification and an overview of the discussions surrounding the mixed race category are specifically problematized, as well as the impacts of the racial quota policy on guaranteeing racial equity at UFRN.