Public Policies for permanence and intersectionality in gender, race and class: Unequal society and the challenge of student permanence in the undergraduate course at UnB
Education; University education; Affirmative Actions; Student Assistance; Ethnic- racial relations.
The thesis project presents the question: “What are the main challenges for black students to remain in the undergraduate program at UnB?” Understanding that the problem of an unequal society is not only related to the challenges of implementing ethnic-racial quotas of a socio-racial nature, as a way of guaranteeing access for economically vulnerable black students, this thesis is based
on a question about the problem constituted due to black students remaining at the university.
The objectives are: to analyze legislation, documents and institutional materials relating to
public policies aimed at student retention, especially at UnB; Analyze the aspects linked
between public policies, guarantee of human rights and student retention of black students at
UnB; Describe the dimensions and conditions of student permanence, pointing out the
challenges for its implementation based on the research carried out at UnB. To this end, the
research was based on an interactive methodology (Filice & Caranaúba, 2019) that connected,
in a triangulated way, institutional ethnography (Smith, 2005 ; Veras, 2014), ethnology
(Garfinkel, 1974) and intersectionality (Creenshaw ,1989 ; Collins & Bilge, 2021 ) based on
the instruments of dense description of logbooks (Geertz, 1989 ), content analysis (Sampaio;
Lycarião, 2021 ), discourse analysis (Orlandi, 2013 ; Pechaux, 1990 ) and comprehensive
interview (Kauffman, 2013 ). The thesis is presented in multipaper format (Mutti & Klüber,
2021), resulting in three articles that aim to outline each objective. The first article aims to
analyze the legislation, documents and institutional materials relating to policies aimed at
student retention, especially at UnB, based on an intersectional theoretical interpretation that
may imply actions aimed at student retention aimed at students entering undergraduate studies
via the ethnic – racial quotas. The second article seeks to analyze the aspects linked between
public policies, guarantee of human rights and student retention of black students at UnB. And
the third article will describe the dimensions and conditions of student permanence, pointing
out the challenges for its implementation based on the research carried out at UnB.