"Quota is not mess, it is repair". An analysis of the implementation of the racial hetero-identification procedure at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte.
Key words: Affirmative actions. Racial quotas. Heteroidentification Boards.
Since the implementation of affirmative action as a response to the reparation of historically marginalized social groups, such as the Black, Indigenous, and Quilombola populations, who had their cultures and lives exterminated through processes such as slavery and land exploitation, Anthropology has increasingly focused on monitoring and reflecting on public policies created and won by social movements, primarily by Black movements. The adoption of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte’s (UFRN) racial quota policy has proven effective in transforming the racial profile of its students. However, in light of fraud cases involving racial quotas for admission to undergraduate courses, racial heteroidentification boards were implemented as a complementary tool to racial self-declaration, through an articulation of the Black, Indigenous, and Quilombola movements at UFRN. Based on an ethnographic description of the implementation process, I propose a reflection on the methodology adopted by the Special Commission for Racial Self-Declaration Verification to identify self-declared Black candidates (Black and Brown), of which I was a part, presenting an analysis of the method used at UFRN and a comparison with the methods used by other institutions and federal universities in Brazil. This work problematizes the use of videos as a tool for racial verification, based on interviews with commission members, and also proposes a reflection on the "pardo" (Brown) category.