Experiências dos estudantes negros cotistas da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ

Abstract

This work consists of a survey on the black students' experiences that enter by the quota system at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - UERJ, from the Oral History methodological resource. Some theoretical references are used in the warp of the dissertation as reflections that allow dialogue with the research proposal, the interviewed students’ narratives. Aspects of their life experiences from the basic training until the time they are higher level students in this public university. They are considered as important elements in this research because they provide it. Memories of the life experiences of these students, both inside and outside the university, people who have contributed so they could overcome the challenges, obstacles for being black, poor, while they are where they are, are explained in the narrative and the material and symbolic importance perceived by these students in relation to the academic experience at UERJ